'Any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles is strictly prohibited': Bandcamp just showed Spotify how easy it is to ban AI slop

If "slop" was 2025's word of the year (and to be clear: it was), AI slop is the scourge of music streaming sites as we march into 2026. It's also the bane of musicians' lives.

Talented recording artists just trying to earn a crust are finding themselves directly up against AI-generated musical spam, seemingly with very little help from streaming platforms.

But as Spotify continues to deny that it is flooding users' recommended feeds with AI music, bemoaning "it’s not always possible to draw a simple line between AI and non-AI music", Bandcamp has quietly issued a concise and simple policy entitled 'Bandcamp's Mission and Our Approach to Generative AI'.