“Everything is moving in the direction of what you might call snippet culture: a world in which all entertainment has a snack-sized version meant for idly consuming on the subway.”

“After all, the Spotify redesign is one more nail in the coffin of the album. More importantly, it’s another shift toward a world in which ‘content’ is dictated by algorithm.”

“(…) we cobble together experiences rather than engaging with things that have been deliberately, even thoughtfully, put together.”

@meanwell posted this excellent article from The Star: https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2023/03/11/spotifys-snippet-culture-redesign-just-another-algorithmic-brick-in-the-wall-of-joyful-discovery.html

The text also quotes a tweet by columnist Kyle Chayka, “Algorithmic feeds have pushed content creators to conform to the acceptable esthetic and cultural average; A.I. generation will just automatically produce that average from the start.” (https://twitter.com/chaykak/status/1620891495502057472)

I will now try to establish two new hashtags to comment on the ongoing threat that music and the arts are facing: #TheReignOfTheAlgorithm #ArtUnderDigitalFire

#Spotify #Streaming #Music #Album #Capitalism #NoAI #AIisNotArt #AINotArt #IAmNotARobot #AvoidAI #NoAIArt #NoMusicLM #NoStableDiffusion #NoDALLE #NoMidjourney #NoAutoTune #NoQuantisation #NoChatGPT