Spotify’s AI bet: more of everything, less of what you want

Spotify is rolling out a new wave of AI products for making podcasts, narrating audiobooks, and creating music covers and remixes.

It is also adding conversational search and a separate desktop app that pulls from email, notes, and calendars to build personalized audio briefings.

The move could turn Spotify from a listening app into an AI content studio, but it may also make the platform more crowded and harder to navigate.

The expansion raises concerns for human creators, who could face more competition as AI-generated audio becomes easier to produce.