Pivot to AI: If you like music even a bit, you might...

jwz

Pivot to AI: If you like music even a bit, you might boggle at the idea that people would be happy with a stream of anonymous machine-generated slop. But to the music streaming business, caring which song you're hearing makes you a weird outlier. The vast
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Like 28 October at 22:55 | Open on mastodon.social

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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

@jwz While I am _firmly_ against random genAI songs being played to me without an opt-in, most of the time I fill pick one artist/album/song to create a mix/station and listen for hours and hours to whatever Tidal has queued up based on that one seed.

28 October at 23:10 | Open on hachyderm.io

Steven Johnson

@jwz I hate this timeline **so much **

28 October at 23:12 | Open on sfba.social

mike805

@jwz This is why vinyl has made a comeback. You actually have to get off your ass every 20 minutes and make a conscious decision as to what you want to hear next.

29 October at 2:36 | Open on noc.social

Kett

@jwz Was listening to Spotify last week, suddenly started getting some long, repetitive, electronic music that didn't go anywhere. I got kind of confused, then noticed the AI generated cover art, weirdly verbose track name, uninspired 'band' name, and some pretentious artist bio fresh out of ChatGPT. The queue had been filled with more of it.

Trash. I'm just downloading everything I like to listen to, now.

29 October at 2:49 | Open on wetdry.world

@jwz Another job that humans have been doing JUST FINE for YEARS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzpKF2znhD8

29 October at 5:01 | Open on mastodon.social

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