Spotify just jumped into your DMs, AI style. The streaming giant has teamed up with ChatGPT, turning your conversations into ‘sonic maps’. Starting today, Free and Premium users can link their Spotify accounts to ChatGPT and ask it to dig up songs, playlists, artists, or podcasts tailored to your taste.
Sounds interesting, right?
The catch? It’s all opt-in. You have to connect your account yourself. Of course, you can also stop at anytime, too. Spotify insists it won’t hand over audio or video content to OpenAI for training.
Do you believe them? I dunno, personally.
So how does it work? You chat, drop mood cues or vibes, mention Spotify, and voilà, ChatGPT weaves recommendations. If you want a late-night ambient mix? Done. A true crime podcast with depth? Just ask. Of course, Premium users get more flexibility; Free users lean on preexisting Spotify playlists.
This integration rolls out in 145 countries for English ChatGPT users (Free, Plus, Pro) on both web and mobile.
Spotify is pitching this as the next frontier of personalization: combining AI smarts with human-editor insight so “we have something that matches every moment.”
Of course, recently, Spotify purged 75 million spammy AI tracks, songs designed to game the system, dump clone accounts, and impersonate real artists. An interesting side-note.
The big question: Will ChatGPT be a tool that discovers artists, or a mechanism that funnels you into the same algorithmic hole?
