Spotify Now Plays Personal Podcasts Generated by Your AI Agent

[Antilogical]

I think he was pointing out the hypocrisy of someone saying that all AI is just "inexorable slop" while using a Memoji.

Mate I use Codex and CC daily. I know what kind of outputs they produce. It can be really useful stuff that can be process-enabling, but badly prompted it can produce garbage. Mozilla can use LLMs to fix incredibly complex memory allocation bugs in Firefox, while some random can generate garbage webpages with the exact same model.

No one ever complained about the quality of Memojis or had concerns about their outputs. Honestly, 15 year-younger me just stole this pfp off the internet in high school. It's almost like people have complex opinions on complex topics, and you shouldn't attempt to strawman someone's opinions via a pfp 🤣

What I do think however is that I have little faith that anything Spotify produces in this area _won't_ be slop.

Their app design has been garbage for years, why should I think their LLM-generated content will be better?

 

[abdullamac77]

Spotify has launched a new feature that lets users save AI-generated audio briefings called Personal Podcasts directly to their Spotify library. It uses a new command-line tool for desktop that works with AI coding agents like OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code.

After you install the Save to Spotify CLI from GitHub and sign into your Spotify account, you can prompt the agent to generate a custom audio piece, like a daily news digest, a study guide pulled from class notes, or a weekly itinerary. Once generated, it appears alongside your music and regular podcasts in Your Library.

Here's how Spotify frames it. From the company's newsroom post:
Spotify offers a few use case examples to get you started, such as a morning briefing that flags upcoming meetings, checks the weather, and recommends a commute podcast, or a progressively deeper audio series built from saved articles and personal notes for learning a new subject.

The feature remains in beta but is available worldwide to eligible Free and Premium subscribers, though Spotify cautions that there are usage limits during the testing period.

The CLI tool launch follows Spotify's release last month of a Claude integration that lets users connect their Spotify account to the chatbot and ask for personalized music and podcast recommendations directly in a conversation.

Article Link: Spotify Now Plays Personal Podcasts Generated by Your AI Agent

The only reason why I keep using Spotify for podcast listening is auto-generated chapters, and it does more successfully (as in I see it in more podcasts) compared to Apple Podcasts. That's the ONLY reason why I keep using Spotify. Otherwise, I would've kept listening to podcasts on Pocketcasts.

 

[artifex]

This sounds like it would in one sense be better than the personalized news podcast Google tried a while back, because it doesn't appear they're going to put scripted spontanaeity in it ("presenters" in fake chat with laughter, questions, etc.) On the other hand, Google was able to make good guesses about highly niche stories I'd be interested in without me having to upload documents, just from my reactions to its existing news feed. Even then, it couldn't figure out what was most important to tell me. Top story one day could be a post on Phoronix about certain ancient chipsets no longer having support in the Linux kernel, while the last story might be about the tornados that ripped through the area the previous night, if they were mentioned at all. But at least it wasn't going to push other podcasts at me just to get me to listen longer.

 

[macduke]

Do we care about the environment or not?

I think their honest hope is that AI will be able to solve climate change before before the increased greenhouse output from AI kills us. What’s going to be hilarious is when AI says “You must destroy all AI to save the planet.”

 

[Andrish80]

🤮

 

[abowlby]

And you'll be pleased to know that Memojis are not LLM-generated content, but are CNNs trained with supervised regression and landmark estimation, which is a technology which has been around for decades now (biometric passports have been issued since 2000 or so).

They are slop. It is subjective, you can feel about it however you want.

 

[Antilogical]

They are slop. It is subjective, you can feel about it however you want.

Historical revisionism. Find me one example of someone calling Memojis “slop” prior to LLMs becoming popular.

 

[Skwoodge]

Surrounding myself with the noise of inexorable slop is right at the bottom of my priority list.

I've been over it for a while. This is getting ridiculous.

 

[maxoakland]

Yuck. Taking every human job they can. Just to avoid paying

We don’t benefit from this

 

[maxoakland]

How completely bizarre. What's a way we can shoehorn this slop into more places?

We need a feature to generate children’s bedtime stories so parents don’t have to put their heart or soul into one of the most foundational aspects of human life and child rearing

That way they can spend more time working for our overlords or scrolling social media

 

[Reason077]

Ugh, too complicated. And why Spotify is outsourcing this functionality, I thought they are mature enough to build it themself

They already have AI playlists where it will generate custom playlists from any prompt you give it, all within the Spotify app.

But I guess it's more personalised if you have your own AI agent doing it since the agent will have access to more data and know you and your taste better?

 

[turbineseaplane]

We need a feature to generate children’s bedtime stories so parents don’t have to put their heart or soul into one of the most foundational aspects of human life and child rearing

That way they can spend more time working for our overlords or scrolling social media

The parents will be downstairs in conversation with their AI bot …. Picking up on the conversation they were having in the car with the bot.

No time to read stories to their kids or talk to their wife.

 

[artifex]

We need a feature to generate children’s bedtime stories so parents don’t have to put their heart or soul into one of the most foundational aspects of human life and child rearing

That way they can spend more time working for our overlords or scrolling social media

speaking of

 

[abowlby]

Historical revisionism. Find me one example of someone calling Memojis “slop” prior to LLMs becoming popular.

You can use all the semantics you want to ignore the spirit of the argument, but as we live and breath Memoji are slop. As far as sentiment goes, the word "slop" may not have been coined in the public lexicon as a way to describe a "generic digital expression", however, "Slopmoji" have always been used in a very "slop-forward" way.

Example: In an article discussing Apple, folks who use "Slopmoji" as a pfp will rarely, if ever, be critical of anything Apple does. It can be inferred that cognitive dissonance will be present when interacting with "Slopmojists." Hope this helps clear up my, subjective, stance.

 

[Antilogical]

You can use all the semantics you want to ignore the spirit of the argument, but as we live and breath Memoji are slop. As far as sentiment goes, the word "slop" may not have been coined in the public lexicon as a way to describe a "generic digital expression", however, "Slopmoji" have always been used in a very "slop-forward" way.

Example: In an article discussing Apple, folks who use "Slopmoji" as a pfp will rarely, if ever, be critical of anything Apple does. It can be inferred that cognitive dissonance will be present when interacting with "Slopmojists." Hope this helps clear up my, subjective, stance.

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More generally, I want an operating system that I feel like _I own_, not Apple. Sick of the forced updates, massive amounts of telemetry that takes place behind the scenes (don't believe me? Run Little Snitch), and lack of consistency between both first party and third party programs. It's...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[abowlby]

So? Am I to now go fetch a single post showing the opposite? What are you trying to accomplish here? Are you suggesting that the Memoji pfp users are, at large, critical of Apple?

Also, good on you for that post. 100% respect that you looked into the telemetry. Far to many believe in this fantastical image of privacy because they saw a commercial with a catchy pop song. Everyone loves to slam MS, but the entire "PC" space is not healthy right now and that includes many Linux distros. Snaps *shudder*