Lorde Calls Out Spotify’s New AI-Generated Feature

Lorde has admitted she’s less than impressed with a new feature Spotify has begun rolling out on its platform, using AI technology to provide a summary of songs that users are listening to.

On Thursday evening, the Grammy winner shared a screenshot taken of herself listening to the Virgin album track Current Affairs on the popular music service, which included a paragraph purportedly about the song.

She added a critical message claiming that the summary was both inaccurate and had the potential to take away from the listening experience.

“Hey Spotify, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say we don’t want this,” the Royals singer wrote.

“Not only is this [information] inaccurate […] but reducing a song to an AI-generated meaning right at the source feels like it limits free interpretation imo.”

“At least make it possible for artists to opt out please,” she added.

In a statement to HuffPost UK, a Spotify spokesperson said: “We built ‘About The Song’ because fans want to dig into the stories behind the music.”

They added: “It’s still in beta. The info comes from articles across the internet, and when something’s off, we move fast to fix it, like we did here. Getting it right matters to us.”

Lorde isn’t the only artist to publicly take issue with an aspect of Spotify’s interface.

Back in 2022, when Adele was gearing up for the release of her most recent album 30, she revealed that she’d convinced the platform to remove the “shuffle” button from its album pages.

This meant that when listeners put on an album, it would play in the order that artists intended.

“We don’t create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason,” the British star claimed at the time. “Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended. Thank you Spotify for listening.”

Spotify responded on X (then still known as Twitter): “Anything for you…”