Spotify Teams Up With ChatGPT to Personalize Music and Podcast Recommendations

Spotify has teamed up with OpenAI’s ample connection exemplary ChatGPT to supply much personalized euphony and podcast recommendations. Starting Monday (Oct. 6), Spotify Free and Premium users tin integrate their relationship with ChatGPT and punctual the AI chatbot to assistance them find caller songs, artists, albums, playlists oregon podcast episodes.

Importantly, this integration does not mean that Spotify is sharing immoderate of its music, podcasts, lyrics oregon immoderate different audio oregon video contented connected its level with OpenAI for grooming purposes. Connecting Spotify to ChatGPT is disposable connected an opt-in basis, and it tin beryllium connected oregon disconnected from the chat work astatine immoderate time.

Examples of ChatGPT prompts, provided by Spotify successful its announcement, include: “Make a playlist with immoderate Latin artists that are connected my dense rotation,” “Are determination immoderate podcasts you’d urge if I privation to spell deeper into subject and innovation?” and “I request thing to support maine successful the zone. Can you propulsion up a Focus Mix?”

The ChatGPT concern follows a fig of Spotify integrations with different user products similar Alexa, Google Home, Volvo, Samsung, Sonos and much to conscionable Spotify listeners wherever they are. The ChatGPT integration is present unrecorded successful English crossed 145 countries connected some web and mobile (iOS and Android).

News of the ChatGPT concern comes conscionable 2 weeks aft Spotify updated its policies to fortify protections against what it calls the “worst” usage cases of AI-generated music. While the streamer said it volition people antagonistic AI euphony usage cases similar spam and impersonation and enactment toward a modular for AI disclosure, the announcement did not amusement that the work is taking a hardline stance against each AI music. As Spotify’s caput of music, Charlie Hellman, said successful a property briefing astatine the time: “I privation to beryllium wide astir 1 thing. We’re not present to punish artists for utilizing AI authentically and responsibly. We anticipation that artists’ usage of AI accumulation tools volition alteration them to beryllium much originative than ever, make much contented that excites fans and connection the champion imaginable acquisition connected Spotify. But we are present to halt the atrocious actors who are gaming the system, and we tin lone payment from [the] bully broadside of AI if we aggressively support against the downside.”

Spotify has besides been engaged launching a slew of different caller updates to the level successful the past fewer months. This includes the summation of lossless audio for premium users, its “Mix With Spotify” diagnostic and its reintroduction of the direct connection feature.

“Spotify’s imaginativeness has ever been to beryllium everyplace you are,” said Sten Garmark, elder vp, planetary caput of user acquisition astatine Spotify, successful a statement. “By bringing Spotify into ChatGPT, we’re creating a almighty caller mode for fans to link with the artists and creators they emotion conversationally, whenever inspiration strikes.”

A spokesperson for UMG added: “We’re supportive of these types of integrations arsenic they connection a pathway for fan...