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Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

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Re: Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

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Post by arrosenberg »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #43
spacephysics wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do we make it less scary?

Start working on your own alternative platform. You, as a hacker, have a responsibility to your community, family, friends, to build an alternative platform for them. If you refuse this responsibility, you are failing your own family and community, and leaving them to suffer all the consequences. You can't realistically tell your family to quit Service X, no matter how fucking bad it is, unless you're willing to prov…

> If you can't build an alternative to Service X, you must start teaching yourself immediately until you are able to do it.

How are you going to teach yourself to acquire music licensing agreements that still allow you to run a profitable service at scale?

Given the money at stake and the number of people who could technically build such a service, what makes you believe that the problem is a lack of willpower or know-how?

Re: Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

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Post by techbio »

millstone wrote: post #77
falcolas wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What value does mining emotions provide for the customer?

I think Spotify envisions a speaker which always plays exactly the right music at all times, reflecting the current mood and anticipating what's next, like a film score. That would indeed be incredible if it worked.

This comment made me wonder how many movies could succeed without the soundtrack.

Re: Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

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Post by nameequalsmain »

ssss11 wrote: post #89
peteretep wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My Spotify Most Hated Bug is that I have to be careful what I name playlists now as it’ll completely fuck over the recommend songs if you’ve named it something it thinks it knows about

Interesting! Like what.. a genre name?

I named a playlist "metal", it started recommending metal songs without me having added anything yet.

Re: Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

owl_troupe wrote: post #54

A quick comparison of the WHOIS results for each and this verbatim copy of the article seems to suggest the "San Francisco Telegraph" is a thinly veiled extension of RT: https://www.rt.com/news/513966-spotify-monitor-emotions-pate... It isn't directly relevant to the subject of this article, but a search for this headline/copy shows it has permeated a lot of right-wing and other questionable sources of info, but appe…

> 13. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising: an emotion processor having one or more sequences of emotion processor instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to generate an output adapted to an emotion detected in a natural utterance;

Mad software patenting skills.

Re: Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

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Post by MrYellowP »

> emotions using speech recognition technology.

Because many don't know the actual term for what they're analysing, I thought I'll post it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_prosody

Honestly, I don't think this is a good idea. It opens one up for manipulation. You feel this way and Spotify will suggest you something that makes you feel rather that way.

It doesn't matter if it's one or more songs meant to support these feelings or counter them, I don't think this is a good for people in the long run. That's not even considering the fact that they want to basically spy on people.

Re: Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

dang wrote: post #79
owl_troupe wrote: post #54

A quick comparison of the WHOIS results for each and this verbatim copy of the article seems to suggest the "San Francisco Telegraph" is a thinly veiled extension of RT: https://www.rt.com/news/513966-spotify-monitor-emotions-pate... It isn't directly relevant to the subject of this article, but a search for this headline/copy shows it has permeated a lot of right-wing and other questionable sources of info, but appe…

Ok, since the rt.com article appears to be the canonical source, we changed the URL from https://www.thesanfranciscotelegraph.com/technology/3678/in-... to that. Edit: actually there are lots of media articles about this story. I've changed the URL from https://www.rt.com/news/513966-spotify-monitor-emotions-pate... , to https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55839655 , which is one of the more substantial ones.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25985491

Re: Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

airstrike wrote: post #9
millstone wrote: post #7

Here is the referenced July paper [1]. Spotify has a very cool feature called Community [2] where users can talk about what they want Spotify to do. The most upvoted ideas are things like "change my username" or "filter explicit songs." My personal wishlist is a "don't play this song again" button [3] and native Homepod support [4]. The point is that users aren't asking for Spotify to interpret their emotional state,…

> The point is that users aren't asking for Spotify to interpret their emotional state, they just want rather basic features to work. Obligatory “If I’d asked customers what they want, they would have told me a faster horse.” People may not realize the value of this new feature because they have not even imagined it.

Until you realize you're a proprietary cyborg owned by Umbrella.
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