Apple’s AI Playlist Playground is bad at music
Apple Music: "What do you want to hear?"
Me: "Atmospheric instrumental black metal to write to."
Apple Music: "Here's three metal songs with vocals, a field recording, an ambient electronic track, and a piece of doom jazz."
I am skeptical of AI's ability to serve up the music I want to begin with, but even I was caught slightly off guard by how underwhelming Apple's new Playlist Playground beta is. YouTube Music's AI playlist generator is far from perfect, but when I gave it the same prompt for instrumental black metal, it wasn't until the fifth track that it delivered something with lyrics, and that was the exception, rather than the ru …