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It’s awful. They absolutely need to introduce a toggle to turn it off.

It’s going to take a lot more backlash than this—they have too much financial incentive to push royalty-free tracks.

Just like their “Shuffle” feature. They have an incentive to play songs in your list that are financially beneficial to them.

It's just like the radio.

Except the radio they are upfront that you are only a listener.

Spotify says you can make a collection as the all powerful curator, and hear from it in what has been understood to be a random selection. They’re breaking the definition of shuffle.

And how do you tell if some music is AI or not?

Sure, there are some obvious cases. But I have been collecting AI songs that I like, and I can't tell the difference from human-made music.

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