{"id":9161,"date":"2023-03-02T06:37:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T05:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/02\/last-night-ai-dj-saved-my-life-testing-spotifys-virtual-radio-host\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T06:37:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T05:37:31","slug":"last-night-ai-dj-saved-my-life-testing-spotifys-virtual-radio-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/02\/last-night-ai-dj-saved-my-life-testing-spotifys-virtual-radio-host\/","title":{"rendered":"Last night AI DJ saved my life? Testing Spotify\u2019s virtual radio host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A male voice offers \u2018commentary\u2019 as the service curates a stream of songs I\u2019ve heard before. Do I really need this?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m listening to Radiohead\u2019s Creep on the radio. \u201cYou may not know this,\u201d the DJ coos patronizingly, \u201cbut this song turns 30 this year.\u201d So far, so tidbit of trivia on FM drivetime. The only difference is this DJ is not a real person.<\/p>\n<p>AI DJ is the next move in Spotify\u2019s never-ending goal to \u201cpersonalize\u201d our listening experiences. Like its Discover Weekly new music playlist, or its end-of-year Wrapped recap, the AI DJ curates a stream of songs it thinks I\u2019ll like based on my listening history. Along with the tunes, I get segues of \u201ccommentary\u201d from a male AI voice, which bursts with the forced friendliness of an over-invested high school guidance counselor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/01\/spotify-ai-dj-service-testing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c34f534cd1c1edbf3a6baa4cb909e1d486889dae\/0_3_2010_1206\/master\/2010.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=10ad1d0a575c928291eee11b15d4d7fc\" title=\"Last night AI DJ saved my life? Testing Spotify\u2019s virtual radio host\" \/>A male voice offers \u2018commentary\u2019 as the service curates a stream of songs I\u2019ve heard before. Do I really need this?<br \/>\nI\u2019m listening to Radiohead\u2019s Creep on the radio. \u201cYou may not know this,\u201d the DJ coos patronizingly, \u201cbut this song turns 30 this year.\u201d So far, so tidbit of trivia on FM drivetime. The only difference is this DJ is not a real person.<br \/>\nAI DJ is the next move in Spotify\u2019s never-ending goal to \u201cpersonalize\u201d our listening experiences. Like its Discover Weekly new music playlist, or its end-of-year Wrapped recap, the AI DJ curates a stream of songs it thinks I\u2019ll like based on my listening history. Along with the tunes, I get segues of \u201ccommentary\u201d from a male AI voice, which bursts with the forced friendliness of an over-invested high school guidance counselor. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A male voice offers \u2018commentary\u2019 as the service curates a stream of songs I\u2019ve heard before. Do I really need this? I\u2019m listening to Radiohead\u2019s Creep on the radio. \u201cYou may not know this,\u201d the DJ coos patronizingly, \u201cbut this song turns 30 this year.\u201d So far, so tidbit of trivia on FM drivetime. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/02\/last-night-ai-dj-saved-my-life-testing-spotifys-virtual-radio-host\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last night AI DJ saved my life? Testing Spotify\u2019s virtual radio host<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}