A Spotify Beta Characteristic Lets Customers Make Customized Playlists by Writing AI Prompts

If a bizarre, throwaway, AI-generated playlist is one thing that pursuits you, you in all probability already know which you can simply kind your request into the chatbot of your selection, and switch the end result into one thing like Spotify or Apple Music manually. However now, Spotify is rolling out its personal, probably much less clunky model of this course of, and calling the characteristic Prompted Playlist, presently obtainable solely to premium Spotify customers in New Zealand.

Because it’s a beta characteristic, Spotify says “the expertise will evolve as we scale to extra listeners.” 

In line with a Spotify blog post, the characteristic “faucets into your whole Spotify listening historical past, all the best way again to day one.” Spotify provides an instance that may provide you with a various however acquainted playlist, “music from my prime artists from the final 5 years,” adopted by a twist aimed toward refining that immediate: “characteristic deep cuts I haven’t heard but.”

Spotify additionally says a prompted playlist could be set to “refresh each day or weekly,” which might make it, virtually talking, a bit just like the “Uncover Weekly” or “Launch Radar,” choices that exist already. It additionally notes that there are pre-written prompts for people who find themselves intrigued sufficient to faucet their technique to this characteristic, however don’t have any precise concepts but.

Spotify claims that “Prompted Playlists allow you to describe precisely what you need to hear and set the principles to your customized playlist.” When you’ve got any expertise with the Spotify algorithm earlier than an LLM was bolted onto it, you’re in all probability instinctively slightly cautious of this. Spotify, like a lot of the algorithm-driven tech world, doesn’t really know you, no matter it might say. It all the time looks as if any uncannily perceptive advice is adopted intently by six Ed Sheeran suggestions.

However I’m not in New Zealand, and may’t try to make Spotify’s Prompted Playlist characteristic work for me, nor can I make it do dumb shit. So for now I’ll simply have to make use of a chatbot: