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Spotify reportedly plans up to 39% price increase in big AI push
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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2026
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I didn't get it. Imagine the sales pitch here.
"Yeah we are going to make your subscription more expensive, but you'll get more slop in return!"
Why?!
The article lays it out pretty clearly on why if you read it.
Money, it's always money. That's roughly 25 million subscribers that would be predicted to sign up for AI slop at 5 bucks a month. Combine that with what I'm sure would be looking to pay the artists a lot less and only having to pay for computing resources instead of people, that's still a fuck ton of money for them.
Because execs have no clue what users want and live in a parallel world in which people want what execs wish people wanted.
Then they'll be baffled by the low take on their offer and their next step will be to force-enroll existing users on a free trial that won't stop by itself, hoping some of them will just let it run and get milked.
They have to. This is actually good news. It shows they are losing revenue and are desperate. If you still use Spotify that's on you.
Because a lot of people don’t care or even like this stuff.
So they will pay more for it, right? Right?
"Ai efficiencies will be passed on to the customer!"
Remember this next time billionaires say they'll happily pay onto UBI or whatever.