King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by AI on Spotify
Victor Tangermann
created: Dec. 10, 2025, 5:01 p.m. | updated: Dec. 20, 2025, 2:31 p.m.
Acclaimed Australian prog rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard made headlines earlier this year when it quit Spotify, protesting the platform’s CEO, Daniel Ek, who heavily invested in an AI weapons company.
Outspoken King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard frontman Stu Mackenzie has now excoriated the platform after finding out about the ruse.
Worse yet, as Platfomer reported last month, a separate King Gizzard impersonator had previously attempted to cash in on the band’s royalties using AI — meaning that if there was one band that Spotify should have been manually screening for impostors, it should have been King Gizzard.
And a growing number of artists, including King Gizzard, have finally had enough and are looking for greener pastures.
More on the incident: King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs
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