“This badge is about the artist’s public identity, not about how the music was made.”
Spotify will badge fake artists and pull them from recommendations, while stating outright that the badge says nothing about whether the music is generated. That sentence is the entire dodge. Upload the same slop under a plausible human name and no badge appears, and the playlists stay open. Spotify gets to announce a standard while keeping the cheap catalog it pays almost nothing to stream.