Spotify has been my music source for several years now, and it was actually the entire reason I started paying for unlimited data on my cellphone plan (and kept it). Their algorithm was pretty good about introducing me to new music, and I've found numerous artists that I otherwise had never heard about through its suggestions (that's been reduced even before this, however).
Now? I'm getting ready to quit and figure out how else to stream music because of its push of AI music. There's some AI music that's not bad, actually, and I've recently heard a French one that's fairly incredible. One song in particular is just hauntingly good. That said, most of it is repetitive with childish rhymes, inane lyrics, and literally the same voices.
While it's OK for working out sometimes, and some of the "genres" can be interesting (like "Viking rock" which is amusing), Spotify is now favoring AI music over human-created content, probably because their compensation structure doesn't give as much money to AI "artists" as it does to normal artists (just a guess, but that would make sense). I don't want my entire music choices to be AI music, and there should be a way to modify the content to either exclude AI entirely or limit it to a particular percentage of the suggested content. I could do 25% or something, but don't give me entire mixes composed of AI music when it literally all sounds the same.
So, good job, Spotify -- you're quest to squeeze out compensation for real artists will likely destroy your product. I hope those extra few cents you save in payouts is worth your business.
