Spotify has been experimenting with AI to create new features for some time now. This is how they announced the launch of your own personal DJ powered by artificial intelligence (and with OpenAI technology). Continuing with this trend, the company is testing a new addition that would allow creating playlists based on a description or prompt.
According to Engadget, a TikTok user posted a captioned short video on the social media platform with the title “Did I randomly discover Spotify’s ChatGPT?“. It seems that randomly, some lucky users have been able to test this new feature on Spotify, hidden within Your Library. To find out if you also have it available, try creating a new playlist and check it out for yourself.
In the aforementioned TikTok video, you can see what this option would be like: “turn your ideas into a playlist using AI”. To start, we would have a text box where we would enter the descriptions to create the lists. If we are not particularly creative, Spotify itself suggests some prompts. Some examples it shows are “focus on work with electronic instrumental music” or “fill the silence with background music from a café”.
Spotify itself has confirmed that they are indeed testing these AI-generated playlists. However, they still don’t know when or how this functionality will be publicly released. This is also not a strange move for Spotify: the service announced the arrival of high-fidelity audio almost three years ago and we still don’t know anything about it.
At the beginning of this month, Spotify carried out its third round of layoffs this year. By its own right, 2023 has managed to become a black year for the technology sector and entertainment (it is estimated that in the video game industry more than 9,000 jobs have been lost).
