A YouTube device makes use of AI to make customized radio stations for you, an eagle-eyed Reddit consumer famous over the vacation weekend. Whereas the corporate hasn’t made any public point out of the characteristic, Redditor kater_pro stumbled throughout it whereas searching the YouTube Music app, which might imply the characteristic is just being examined with a restricted variety of customers for now. That assertion is supported up by an “Experiment” tag that’s outstanding in kater_pro’s screenshots, so there’s at present no timetable for when (or if) this characteristic will attain the broader public.
Based on kater_pro, activating the characteristic pops a small textual content field on the consumer’s display that claims “Ask for music any means you want.” Kater_pro mentioned they requested the field for “queer hip hop beats;” the AI generated a radio station that includes songs from Janelle Monáe, Lil Nas X, and RuPaul. The station’s description reads “Rhymes and flows from the guts, a celebration of queer pleasure in hip hop’s artwork.” A little bit of a clumsy technique to say that, however OK.
It seems to be like you’ll be able to tune your AI-generated stations on the fly, as there’s a small chat field on the backside of the interface with a variety of options above it, prompting the consumer to seek for something from “Upbeat pop anthems” to “Moscow rock scene.” Customers can both sort or converse their responses.
The characteristic is much like Spotify’s present “AI DJ,” in addition to a third-party app for Spotify and Apple Music known as PlaylistAI. It’s a extra handy technique to get AI assist with music than getting plain textual content suggestions from ChatGPT, though the jury’s nonetheless out on if it’ll be any higher than extra normal advice options like Uncover Weekly.
Kater_pro didn’t specify whether or not they’re a paid subscriber, so it’s unclear if the characteristic might be locked behind a paywall or not (although that has been the case with prior AI YouTube options).
