I keep ending up with AI music in my playlist when exploring for me music. What is your workflow to avoid it? Searching DDG for me has been more bandwidth intensive than I like…
Some background. My favorite song is a song I haven’t heard yet. And my appetite sways wildly. One month it’s old school urban rap, the next it’s kpop, and then Nordic death metal and so on.
I never know what I’ll be in the mood for but I’ll find a thread with a song I don’t know and use it to build play lists to see what I find and sometimes I find trash gems that way.
This last time our friend group watched Eurovision 2026 together and some of those songs are bangers. One of them led to adding a few artists built off of playlists from that song I really liked, and they all ended up being AI… damnit!


The only time I hear AI music is when someone sends it to me. And since they usually tell me “they made it with AI,” I don’t actually listen to it. I haven’t used Spotify’s recommendation system for a while, since it became garbage long before AI was around, and I don’t listen to random music like on a radio or live podcast type thing. Occasionally it might be in a meme video, but it’s incredibly rare not least of which is because all the creators I tend to follow and watch also hate AI.