Spotify has announced that it has no plans to completely ban music content created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) on its platform.

The music streaming platform earlier this year pulled a track featuring AI-cloned voices of Drake and The Weeknd.

Neither Drake nor The Weeknd were aware of cloned versions of their voices being used on the song, ‘Heart on My Sleeve’. The track was removed from Spotify and other streaming platforms in April.

CEO of Spotify Daniel Ek told the BBC there were valid uses of the tech in making music – but AI should not be used to impersonate human artistes without their consent.

He added that using AI in music will likely be debated for “many, many years”.

While AI is not banned in all forms on the platform the company does not allow its content to be used to train a machine learning or AI model, the likes of which can then produce music.

This comes as artistes are increasingly speaking out against the use of AI in the creative industries.