Haven’t published on Spotify before but isn’t it time consuming to create new artist profiles?
An odd discovery on Spotify
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#12Sybil attack on Spotify! Since both Spotify and Grubhub have a digital layer, actors can multiply endlessly! Is the only solution to retreat to campfire songs and home cooking?
In the same spirit it could be Bayesian poisoning of the recommendation algorithm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_poisoning
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#13In the “Release Radar” generated for me last week, there was a 40 second song consisting of rhythmic mechanical noises with a strange title and album art of an alien head. I didn’t like it at all. I think it was recommended to me because the publisher listed its artist as “Fanny Mendelssohn” — a classical composer whose work I definitely enjoy and have probably pressed “Like” a few times on — even though the song had…
> on account of being long-deceased and all
posthumous releases are a thing
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#14Could this be an artist doing A/B tests to find the best samples to inject into a broader composition?
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#15If you go to the playlist's "playlist radio," you can find even more variations; I figured > 100 was a good number to stop at. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pyIM5We0dd01U4KQyVmkU
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#16In the “Release Radar” generated for me last week, there was a 40 second song consisting of rhythmic mechanical noises with a strange title and album art of an alien head. I didn’t like it at all. I think it was recommended to me because the publisher listed its artist as “Fanny Mendelssohn” — a classical composer whose work I definitely enjoy and have probably pressed “Like” a few times on — even though the song had…
> on account of being long-deceased and all posthumous releases are a thing
Not really for the likes of Fanny Mendelssohn.
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#17> A single kitchen operating under many names to increase its algorithmic “surface area”; another shape of things to come. I find this infuriating. There's one dominican restaurant in my city that's listed on DoorDash, Grubhub and UberEats under over 20 different names with different subsets of their menu. All of these duplicate listings for the same place make it harder to search or browse the actual restaurant opti…
Haha, right on. I love me some Indian food, and there's ten different Indian "restaurants" near me, all located at the same address. I looked it up on Google Maps, and it's basically a hole-in-the-wall restaurant space that can barely hold one restaurant, never mind ten. Yet Grubhub et al. don't seem to care one way or another
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#18The post was interesting, but I also noticed something in the blog that had the same flavor. Even though the link was for a specific post, the page layout neatly flowed into another post. So smooth I thought the second post's title was a subheading of the original article. A strange thing, but maybe that's just me making connections that aren't there.
I listened to the playlist and it's definitely the same song over and over again with slight tweaks. Imagine finding dozens of blogs where posts are all the same, but with very slight changes to vocabulary used in each blog.
There has actually been a lot of that showing up in my google search results for the past few years… there are thousands of sites out there that were created by scraping news articles and blog posts and replacing random words with thesaurus alternatives.
The results vary from incomprehensible to some kind of uncanny valley “is this just…really terrible writing or am I having a brain problem?” territory.
I’ve actually encountered lively discussions of these sorts of cloned articles with nary a mention of the weird writing.
With what we’ve seen from AI text and image generators recently, it’s only going to get weirder soon.
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#19Sybil attack on Spotify! Since both Spotify and Grubhub have a digital layer, actors can multiply endlessly! Is the only solution to retreat to campfire songs and home cooking?
The next step in this, of course, is Spotify just generating music on the fly algorithmically based on your choices. Skip the middleman, so to speak. Maybe it is Spotify behind it?
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#20With the success of AI content generation for text (GPT-3 etc.) and images (DALL-E etc.), it seems inevitable that music will soon be targeted as well, if not already.
What's particularly interesting in the music sphere is that there are already well-established trends towards building a sort of ambient, atmospheric, generated soundscape. (For example, the famous "Lo-Fi girl" stream.) AI-generated content is a very natural progression here.
Regarding the broader pop music industry, a "GPT-3 for music" would likely further inequalize the relative power of labels and musicians. If people who control music distribution can easily make hit songs without needing to hire songwriters, arrangers, or performers, they surely will do so. I can imagine a lot of music-related occupations potentially having to pivot to rely much more heavily on live performances to make any money.