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Huh, I wonder if this is just a mad lib that is being used to gather information about people? It's sayin stuff like "You know music existed before 2019, right

by blhack 6y ago

Huh, I wonder if this is just a mad lib that is being used to gather information about people? It's sayin stuff like "You know music existed before 2019, right?", but also criticizing me for liking Stan Rogers, who died in 1983, Jay Z, and Trevor Hall, who seemed to peak in the early 2000s. Maybe I just haven't finished my coffee yet, but I was kindof hoping that this would actually use AI to figure out the musical variety of my listening history and suggest more people to listen to or something like that. Seems like it was just a bunch of mad libbed insults though.

Agentlien 6y ago
I had the same feeling. It made a spot on joke about how much AC/DC I listen to followed by a funny and relevant comment about too much Slipknot. But then it followed it up by calling me obsessed with two bands I can't even remember listening to in recent years. One of which I never really listened much to.
- semi-extrinsic 6y ago
  For me also, the big punchline revolved around a song from the Dirty Dancing movie that I had to actually look up to find out if I've ever heard before. Now I'm a sucker for 80s synth-pop, don't get me wrong, but that specific song I'm 99.9% sure I've never actually played on Spotify. So it kinda seems like they've hard coded some insults with pop culture cross-references. The "AI" be like select case (person%likes) case ('80s-synth-pop') print *, 80s_pop_insult_char case ('single-specific-artist') print *, person%likes_artist//'-stan' ! (...) end select
- Talanes 6y ago
  Yeah, it called out Todd Barry as one of the most listened to things, and I haven't listened to comedy on Spotify since I started listening to a weekly stable of podcasts like six years ago.
nwsm 6y ago
Yeah some of it seemed tailored and accurate, specifically the insults at the end (They pegged my music perfectly with "stoner-frat-bro bad"), but most of it was just pulling most played artists and songs and making vague jokes.
mot0rola 6y ago
i did not understand the need for the hostile language. i regret letting this access my account. i would recommend others to not give this tool access, it is not worth it.
- jbreckmckye 6y ago
  Same. I gave it access to my data, it spat out a bunch of vague insults that just... didn’t mean anything. It called me a “manic pixie dream girl” - I’m male. It said I was “local-talk-radio-bumper-sticker-bitch“, which isn’t even an adjective. I revoked access afterwards but like you I felt a bit conned.
nilram 6y ago
> You know music existed before 2019, right? It gave me the line about being stuck in 2010. Just an insult machine. It would actually be useful if it gave me songs it thought were more "cool" based on my current lists. Still, I'm getting a perspective by reading other people's amusement with the comments here on HN.

by blhack 6y ago

Agentlien 6y ago

I had the same feeling. It made a spot on joke about how much AC/DC I listen to followed by a funny and relevant comment about too much Slipknot. But then it followed it up by calling me obsessed with two bands I can't even remember listening to in recent years. One of which I never really listened much to.

semi-extrinsic 6y ago
For me also, the big punchline revolved around a song from the Dirty Dancing movie that I had to actually look up to find out if I've ever heard before. Now I'm a sucker for 80s synth-pop, don't get me wrong, but that specific song I'm 99.9% sure I've never actually played on Spotify. So it kinda seems like they've hard coded some insults with pop culture cross-references. The "AI" be like select case (person%likes) case ('80s-synth-pop') print *, 80s_pop_insult_char case ('single-specific-artist') print *, person%likes_artist//'-stan' ! (...) end select
Talanes 6y ago
Yeah, it called out Todd Barry as one of the most listened to things, and I haven't listened to comedy on Spotify since I started listening to a weekly stable of podcasts like six years ago.

nwsm 6y ago

Yeah some of it seemed tailored and accurate, specifically the insults at the end (They pegged my music perfectly with "stoner-frat-bro bad"), but most of it was just pulling most played artists and songs and making vague jokes.

mot0rola 6y ago

i did not understand the need for the hostile language. i regret letting this access my account. i would recommend others to not give this tool access, it is not worth it.

jbreckmckye 6y ago
Same. I gave it access to my data, it spat out a bunch of vague insults that just... didn’t mean anything. It called me a “manic pixie dream girl” - I’m male. It said I was “local-talk-radio-bumper-sticker-bitch“, which isn’t even an adjective. I revoked access afterwards but like you I felt a bit conned.

nilram 6y ago

> You know music existed before 2019, right? It gave me the line about being stuck in 2010. Just an insult machine. It would actually be useful if it gave me songs it thought were more "cool" based on my current lists. Still, I'm getting a perspective by reading other people's amusement with the comments here on HN.