Same here. It helped that their “personalized suggestions” seemed increasingly whatever the music industry wanted to push and nothing related to my musical tastes.
100% they’ve started gaming the algorithm to reduce artist payouts. Ambient music is rife with ai generated tracks taking negotiated rates, other genres will surely follow.
Pulled the cord when they went full rogan
Same here. It helped that their “personalized suggestions” seemed increasingly whatever the music industry wanted to push and nothing related to my musical tastes.
100% they’ve started gaming the algorithm to reduce artist payouts. Ambient music is rife with ai generated tracks taking negotiated rates, other genres will surely follow.
http://web.archive.org/web/20241221144306/https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/