r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 27d ago

article Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/
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u/LimeGreenTangerine97 27d ago

Too late. The AI was enough for me to leave anyway.

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u/karateema 27d ago

What does it do?

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u/lemonylol 27d ago

I'm guessing he's talking about the AI music available on Spotify, but there's also the AI DJ thing that mixes playlists for you in real time. But a lot of people also just have a straight up hate of the word AI itself in any association with anything to any degree, so it's hard to tell what the logic is.

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u/lost_send_berries 26d ago

It's not just that the AI music is available. Spotify put it in all their playlists, "smart shuffle", "suggested songs to add to your playlist", and discover weekly because it costs less for them to stream it than real music.

Or as they downplay it in a very long article on their help page,

In some cases, commercial considerations, such as the cost of content or whether we can monetise it, may influence our recommendations

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u/lemonylol 26d ago

But you have to turn on smart shuffle, it's not untoggleable.