AI permeates every aspect of society these days, but it may not be the case in communities where English is not the dominant language. Spotify tries to fix this by offering the Spanish version of his DJ feature.
On Wednesday, Spotify announced a new Spanish-language feature for its DJ mode, known as Xavier or “X.” The new DJ’s name is Livy, and Spotify even gave their new DJ a story describing him as a “Senior Music Editor at Spotify based out of Mexico” and a “music expert who has spent his entire career in the music industry.”
It’s basically a more fleshed-out version of Jon Hamm being able to digitally assign backgrounds and perspectives to “cookies.” Black Mirror Christmas episode. Does this mean that if we play Wizzard’s “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday” on an infinite loop, X and Livia will start screaming?
DJ is an AI-generated playlist of curated songs based on a Spotify user’s listening history. The DJ feature also includes an AI voice that introduces and comments on some of the songs he’s chosen, just like a radio DJ would, so that DJ plays the songs you actually want to hear. Music streaming service Launched DJ last year using OpenAI. Six months later, Spotify expanded DJ reaches 50 countries but only in English.
Spotify’s DJ is also starting to compete. YouTube Music just announced an AI-generated talk DJ radio generator for select users. If they don’t call it “YouGene”, then they are missing pure gold.
