I’ve been listening to this channel called Weird A.I., that does all these parodies of famous songs. The A.I. that does it is really clever, it just needs more accordion.
There’s one the guy writes all the lyrics for the music and he’s pretty funny
I don’t care for “celebrities” but I like my music human.
Just like I like my women. And coffee.
AI’s never going to make music that speaks to me until it can shoot up heroin, urinate on groupies during coke-fueled orgies, snort lines of ants, and bite the head off of a bat. Without that it just doesn’t understand our struggles on an emotional and spiritual level.
Abso-fucking-lutely not
LOL, you’d have to pay me to listen to AI slop.
And where are all the Spotify defenders claiming that “buht Spotify banned AI slop!!” ?
Spotify has been upping its experimentation with artificial intelligence recently, banking on a slew of new AI-driven product features to continue the rise in paid subscriptions.
“There is plenty of industry debate about AI investment and costs,” Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström said on the company’s earnings call. “Our view is that being an AI beneficiary means winning on the cost side too.”
They’ll pay themselves and problem solved. Isnt what tech giants always do? They circulate their worm money in between
Not quite. The money is supposed to be injected with a little outside cash every turn in order to keep growing, but that means you need customers. Some industries can tap the government’s pockets for that, but Spotify will have it more difficult in that regard.
“I feel like Spotify is coming alive, and you can literally start talking to it,” Söderström said.
I don’t want to talk to my tools, I want them to do things. Introducing a layer where misunderstanding is rampant (conversation) is a horrible experience.
I’m starting to get the feeling that AIs are a lot like monorails.
Yeah, same here, so many cases they want to champion a “conversation”… No, I want the simple and precise interactions for these things, maybe a chat can work for a ‘search’ dialog, but for a music player, it’s job is to play music, and let me skip to next on occasion.
Similar for fast food ordering. The kiosks and apps frankly I’ve liked the option to enter my order precisely without a clerk to mess it up. Advocating for chat for those is a step backwards too.
Shooting themselves in the foot. Most artists already pay more into Spotify to setup and promote their work than they make from royalties. Now they want to cut the Artist out. Braindead execs.
I’m so glad the stock tanked as a very direct result.
I’m also glad I ditched them after they started letting ICEatzgruppen run ads on their platform.
Those spotify execs really have their finger on the pulse. Their grotesquely huge bonuses grew three times that day. /s
Earlier this summer, the company rolled out a new feature called “Talk to Spotify,” allowing Premium users to interact with the platform more conversationally via a chatbot interface.
“I feel like Spotify is coming alive, and you can literally start talking to it,” Söderström said.
The level of delusion is phenomenal.
Is that the feature I go out of my way to avoid?
Like all I want is search and play. Maybe saving artists and playlists if you’re fancy.
My $BRAND has a voice now, and you must worship it
I don’t mind this particular use of AI if it can accurately answer questions about bands and music genres.
It can’t.
“I’d like the thing that doesnt work if it worked.”
Pretty reasonable take, but also a pure pipe dream.
That’s how my brother plays golf!
“I’d have par on this hole if I didn’t completely fuck up my first three shots.”
Huh, I thought I read the opposite previously where they were scrubbing a bunch of AI music.
Yeah I was real skeptical about that. If you want to filter AI slop, use Tidal. It labels AI and you can set it so that they can’t even be played. Of course it isn’t 100% accurate, but I was impressed by how many it caught
Of course they do. That way they don’t have to pay any musicians. Just flood the entire platform with slop.
Someone posted a video for a song the other day and I thought it sounded pretty good. Then I found it on Spotify and saw the credits showed it was composed with GenAI. The fact it did actually have a real human singer threw me off because I could feel something from it, which I don’t with 100% AI music. Bummed me right the fuck out.
I’m a musician. Music is a really big part of my life. I like weird music. I’m up to date on the latest AI audio models.
I’ve been tricked multiple times already. I can no longer tell something is AI generated music or not just from listening to it.
I really, really don’t like that.
The tool has yet to launch, but when it does, it will be a paid add-on.
They think people will pay extra for this?
They’ll move the no-ads thing to it so then they can show the shareholders how great AI is for their business even though people only get it to get rid of the ads.
They patted themselves on the back for calling it a “tool”, rather than an assistant, or some other anthropomorphic term.
“See, we’re being honest with our users. That has to count for something.”
I choose to parse “tool” as a disparaging epithet in this context, instead of the classical definition
partake in this AI tailwind
some limitations and more ads than before
A completely natural part of the enshittification playbook
