'How Bad Is Your Spotify?' uses an AI bot to ruthlessly judge your taste in music

You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!! No, really, you might not be able to.
'How Bad Is Your Spotify?' uses an AI bot to ruthlessly judge your taste in music
You might want to take a deep breath before looking at your stats. Credit: the pudding

We can all agree that 2020 has been awful, but do you know what else has been awful? Your Spotify listening habits — according to an A.I. bot, that is.

With How Bad Is Your Spotify?, a project by digital culture site The Pudding, you can let a bot completely destroy any sense of pride you had in your taste in music.

The process is simple: Log into your Spotify, answer a few questions, and patiently await your results as the bot makes fun of your taste in music along the way. At the end, it gives you a full report based on things like which tracks you listen to too much, the "artists you stan to an uncomfortable extent," and a few other notes that might make you cry.


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It's certainly the opposite of Spotify Wrapped, which provides you with similar data but in a ... less judgmental way. It also allows you to come to your own conclusions about yourself instead.

But seeing as how this bot has been "trained on corpus of over two million indicators of objectively good music, including Pitchfork reviews, record store recommendations, and subreddits you've never heard of," it clearly knows best. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules.

Thankfully, none of your stats are posted anywhere, but a lot of brave souls have taken to the internet to do it anyway.

At first, I wasn't sure if I was truly ready to share my own stats with the world. But after scrolling through these tweets, I don't think I feel as bad. So, here ya go:

After experiencing this, I think I'm just going to stick to scrolling through my Spotify Wrapped instead.

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