Spotify teams up with ChatGPT for tailored music and podcast recommendations

Spotify recently announced that they have introduced ChatGPT into its systems. This will allow users to plug their Spotify accounts into OpenAI’s ChatGPT to get personalised music and podcast recommendations.ChatGPT will now surface the Spotify app in the chat to create the playlist using the user’s instructions.Connecting Spotify to ChatGPT is available on an opt-in basis, and it can be connected or disconnected from the chat service at any time.Free users will still be able to access Spotify’s existing playlists, including favourites like “Discover Weekly” and “New Music Friday”.Premium users, however, can go a step further and have Spotify transform their detailed prompts into a brand-new, fully personalised playlist.The Spotify app in ChatGPT is now live in English across 145 countries to all logged-in ChatGPT Free, Plus and Pro accounts, available on both web and mobile for iOS and Android.Spotify has vowed that artists and creators’ work will stay protected under this new functionality. Spotify will not share music, podcasts, or video content on the platform with OpenAI to train its models.This means that no content will be shared with any machine learning software.This partnership follows after Spotify updated its policies to strengthen protections against what it calls the “worst” use cases of AI-generated music. The company said it will target negative AI music use cases like spam and impersonation and work toward a standard for AI disclosure. However, the announcement did not indicate that the service is adopting a strict position against all AI music.Spotify’s head of music, Charlie Hellman, said in a press briefing earlier this month that they introduced a new impersonation policy that clarifies how they handle claims about AI voice clones and other forms of unauthorised vocal impersonation, giving artists stronger protections and clearer recourse.“I want to be clear about one thing. We’re not here to punish artists for using AI authentically and responsibly. We hope that artists’ use of AI production tools will enable them to be more creative than ever, create more content that excites fans and offer the best possible experience on Spotify. “But we are here to stop the bad actors who are gaming the system, and we can only benefit from [the] good side of AI if we aggressively protect against the downside,” Hellman said.ChatGPT has recently reported that more than 800 million users engage with its chatbot on a weekly basis, so bringing integration for applications like Spotify are designed to encourage users to stay within its own ecosystem instead of exploring other areas of the internet or navigating away.“The magic of this new generation of apps in ChatGPT is how they blend familiar interactive elements like maps, playlists and presentations with new ways of interacting through conversation. “You can start with an outline and ask Canva to transform it into a slide deck, or take a course with Coursera and ask ChatGPT to elaborate on something in the video as you watch,” OpenAI said in a statement.

Spotify teams up with ChatGPT for tailored music and podcast recommendations

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