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King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs

Victor Tangermann

created: Dec. 8, 2025, 5:55 p.m. | updated: Dec. 18, 2025, 5:19 p.m.

Acclaimed Australian prog rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard joined a growing number of artists when it left Spotify in July. A search for “King Gizzard” on the platform brings up the band’s abandoned official profile, with “King Lizard” being recommended immediately below it. As Platfomer reported last month, Spotify was previously overrun by another King Gizzard impersonator that uploaded “muzak” versions of the band’s songs. In other words, if there’s one band that Spotify should be manually monitoring for AI ripoffs, it’s King Gizzard, but it’s clearly making no such effort. Spotify didn’t reply to a request for comment, though the “King Lizard” account disappeared after we initially ran this story.

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