by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I would be willing to pay twice as much for Spotify if they really leaned into AI. If they could use an LLM to really finely pin down what my musical tastes were at any particular moment, then, yeah, I’d pay $22US a month.
I will note — because of my tendency towards magical thinking — that I find myself wondering about how Spotify seems to already know me really well. Some of its choices are…eerie.
I have repeatedly asked LLMs if it would be possible for an LLM to “talk” to Spotify and get it to manipulate my musical algorithms. The answer is always — not really. But maybe one day.
But that’s magical thinking. I need to stop thinking like that.
I will note that as a middle-aged man that Spotify is one of those things that is such a joy that it, unto itself, makes life worth living.
