Spotify Execs Bet People Will Pay for AI Music. Stock Price Plunges

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.

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?

“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 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.

At this rate, I am more likely to cancel my payments to them enitrely

Tidal has the option to automatically filter out AI songs btw.

partake in this AI tailwind

some limitations and more ads than before

A completely natural part of the enshittification playbook

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.

Of course they do. That way they don't have to pay any musicians. Just flood the entire platform with slop.

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.

I want two things: a shitload of music, and an awesome way to manage a personal library of favorites.

WinAmp nailed this 30 years ago, fuck off with the big touch target negative space design and broken search, forget podcasts, audio books, blablabla.

Those spotify execs really have their finger on the pulse. Their grotesquely huge bonuses grew three times that day. /s

Abso-fucking-lutely not

I don't care for "celebrities" but I like my music human.

They’ll pay themselves and problem solved. Isnt what tech giants always do? They circulate their worm money in between

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.

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.”

Man how hilariously detached.

The only thing that I occasionally hit Spotify for is the user generated playlists. Like that’s it. I then copy them over to other platforms. So it sounds like they aren’t making playlist improvements and are just throwing out random ideas for the joy of AI. I assume I can ask any other AI platform about the origins of a band or song so not sure what the differentiator there is. I’m sure they would love to sell access to AI music just like they were able to pay a lot less for podcast materials and want folk to pay for that as well. Anything to not pay musicians I guess.

I want a world of abundance where all humans share equally in the fruits of automation. Where the only thing that we NEED to do is make art. I don't want a world where AI makes "art". I think a lot of people from nearly ever age group associate music strongly with human expression and culture. No wonder this isn't popular.

On the positive, Tidal recently added a toggle to block AI music. Naturally I flipped it right away.

Huh, I thought I read the opposite previously where they were scrubbing a bunch of AI music.

I use Deezer btw. Similar in service to Spotify but much better payout for the artists.