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Amazon Music follows Spotify with an AI playlist generator of its own, Maestro

Spotify isn't the only one to dabble with AI playlists -- on Tuesday, Amazon announced it would do the same. Amazon Music is now testing Maestro, an AI

Amazon suggests that in addition to emojis, customers can write prompts that include activities, sounds, or emotions. The product is launching in beta, so Amazon warns that the technology behind Maestro “won’t always get it right the first time.” Like Spotify, it’s also added some guardrails to the experience to proactively block offensive language and other inappropriate prompts, it says. Amazon suggests playlists like “😭 and eating 🍝,” “Make my 👶 a genius,” “Myspace era hip-hop, “🏜️🌵🤠,” “Music my grandparents made out to,” “🎤🚿🧼”, and “I tracked my friends and they’re all hanging out without me,” to give you an idea of how silly the prompts can be for this new experience.

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