Spotify's new restrictions on third-party access to its Web API aim to combat data scraping and protect user information from potential misuse in AI applications.
"As part of our ongoing work to address the security challenges facing many companies today, we are making changes to our public APIs," a Spotify spokesperson said in an email to TechCrunch.
The changes aim to restrict certain developers that Spotify believes are abusing the API, for example, by collecting data from the platform (scrapping).
With the advent of transformer models, there is probably a risk of people training new models to mimic Spotify's model(s)," one developer expressed.
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