Spotify’s Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström
Spotify’s Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström
Spotify's Gustav Söderström talks about AI music, Notebook LM podcasts, and the nuance of building better discovery using LLMs.
Spotify's plans to take money from subscribers but never pay a fucking dime to anyone else , ever.
The perfect corporation as no employee, no product, pays no taxes, and grows infinitely. Capitalism at work
Cutting out everyone but the middleman
Right. AI music? Hopefully not, it is likely going to lead to generic slop that may infringe on other artists copyright. AI Podcasts? OH GOD NO! factual news isn't working with AI and you guys think that opinions with AI is a good idea? Are you crazy?
Now music recommendations? That might just work given that algorithms are already doing a decent job at presenting new ( to the particular user, not by actual age) music that the user may enjoy. The question really is if that is actually better than what we already have. And there is only one way to find out, which is by testing it and then being honest about it.
Now music recommendations? That might just work given that algorithms are already doing a decent job at presenting new ( to the particular user, not by actual age) music that the user may enjoy
In my experience they really suck..."oh, you liked that song from this artist? let me just push a shitload that is categorised in the same basic genre without actually considered the specific track you liked"
It's so ridiculously generic in its suggestions it's useless. So yeah, AI can almost only do a better job at this than currently.
That seems like a quick way to get me to cancel my Spotify subscription.
You'd cancel rather than just not listening to that content?
Edit: I'm just asking a question, wow.
I never listen to podcasts and yet Spotify shoves them in my face every time I open the app. Spotify also constantly resets my quality preferences back to auto (which is just low quality with another name). Every time I want to shuffle a playlist, Spotify sneaks in songs they think I might like as the first shuffle option. So I do believe they'll be forcing this AI slop front and center everywhere and it won't be as simple as not listening to it.
I cancelled Spotify when they started pushing podcasts in my music app, with no way to turn it off.
Why pay for a service that actively pushes you towards stuff you don't want? Especially if there's alternatives that cost the same and ... don't do that.
...it Saves money
Well, there's a few aspects of it. If they push it, it could make my experience worse (This tends to happen with any service that's pushing AI). I also consider it to be highly unethical, so it lowers my opinion of their ethics (not that it's high to begin with) and makes me more likely to protest them on ethical grounds. After all, I'm here now instead of Reddit for similar reasons.
The only legitimate use I can think of for AI in podcasting might be for realtime translations so people who don’t speak the language of the podcaster can still listen. Even that makes me feel weird, but I think it could be done ethically-ish. Same deal for voice-cloning, I think that would be super-useful for realtime translations, so listeners still kinda hear the host’s voice, even translated. But every other use I can think of is ripe for abuse and won’t result in quality content.
Some YouTube creators are doing this right now. AI generated translations with the creator's voice. Looking at it from simply a nerds's perspective, it's fucking neato
Move to Tidal if you value artists
Move to piracy and donate to the artists directly to better support the artist, if that is an option.
Tidal still take a cut from the artists revenue.
Some artists don’t have donation links, so Tidal is the best bet
If they weren't so focused on Europe/the Americas, sure.
There is already AI music which people create and upload.
yes but if Spotify uses its own GenAI music, they don't have to pay anyone else when someone listens to it.
Hard Archive and Almost Vinyl know it's AI and at least make it humorous
Finally, they can make a robo-Rogan that can radicalise young men at a fraction of the cost
It’s like the Electric Monk but for fascist indoctrination
Been off Spotify for over a year now after being on for about 15 years (2008-2023 I think). Trying to prioritize buying music from contemporary artists who are not big. Not too sure about the best places to buy from though, after Bandcamp was sold and laid off a bumch of people. Where does Qobuz or 7digital stack up in terms of paying the artists?
Record collections from estate sales. Turntable that can digitize.
ITT: People who did not read the article and just shot from the hip
I am cancelling
When Spotify will unveil that the company will be run by AI and make the job of the CEO, CTO, etc, obsolete? When will the board of directors be replaced by AI? This is the news I want to hear.
The closest I want to AI music is ENUNUNU or Diffsinger, which still require a human(s) to actually put in effort for a good quality song.
But they don't care because there's less profit in letting humans be creative.
söderström. So, just asking, is he a meat fetishist too? Edit: Just look up who söder is instead of just downvoting stuff you dont gez
ai music is so soulless, just take a listen to any of it. spotify users have to wake up and jump ship. don't reward them with this bullshit by giving them money.
we have to start voting with our wallets to fight back against nonsense like this