Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify

A campaigner said: 'This stolen music is almost certain to end up training AI models.' A campaigner said: 'This stolen music is almost certain to end up training AI models.' Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna's Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadata An activist group has claimed to have scraped millions of tracks from Spotify and is preparing to release them online. Observers said the apparent leak could boost AI companies looking for material to develop their technology. A group called Anna's Archive said it had scraped 86m music files from Spotify and 256m rows of metadata such as artist and album names.