Youtube Music Is Testing AI Hosts That Will Interrupt Your Tunes
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YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that interrupt music playback, sparking concerns about ad integration and user experience among HN commenters.
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I keep hearing horror stories about online music platforms, from disappearing content, to AI slop and I'm so glad I never jumped on that.
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-02-22/spotify-debuts-a-new...
It basically just switches between 10 5-song playlists that it knows you'll like. Nothing AI about it other than the AI voice that occasionally says "mixing it up now..."
Those horrible automatic translations are bad enough.
And it seems the slop can't be completely disabled. I guess sooner or later it will spew out"usefull recommendations" and end up being just another vehicle for ads.
It will be shit like "did you know that the singer of band {xyz} likes this brand of {snake oil}?" or "the song you are listening to reminds me of {insert crypto scam}".
It seems soon antoher browser plug-in is required to get rid of yet antoher annoying anti-feature.
An entire article about a beta feature they haven’t even seen? I normally wouldn’t read Ars but I’m on flight with nothing else to do and still feel swindled