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What is 'The Pudding’ Spotify bot? Here’s how to find out if your taste in music is bad

The Pudding, a digital publication, has created the bot called ‘How Bad Is Your Spotify’, which judges the listener on the basis of their Spotify playlist with hilarious results

If you always thought you have the best Spotify playlist in your friend circle and especially after the much-hyped Spotify Wrapped, well, things are about to change. A new AI tool called ‘The Pudding’ Spotify bot is here to roast you based on your music taste on the music-streaming app. In simpler words, it will poke you about how bad your taste in music is.

What is ‘The Pudding’ Spotify bot?

The digital publication called ‘The Pudding’ has created the bot called ‘How Bad Is Your Spotify’ which judges the listener on the basis of their Spotify playlist. Once given permission by the user, the bot will keep dropping bombs on the listener with hilarious results. The official Twitter account of The Pudding also posted about the new bot and captioned it as, “New project! We built an A.I. bot that mercilessly judges your taste in music on Spotify. See how your data stacks up against millions of indicators of objectively good music, including Pitchfork reviews and record store recommendations.”

How does it work?

If you are planning to get roasted on the basis of your music taste, here’s how to go about it. The bot gives an introduction to the users once they log in into their account on the website. It will welcome you with two options where the first one is to directly logging into Spotify and redirect to the streaming app's official website. In this option, it would require users to authenticate and allow the bot to access personal files to view music data, reports Tech Times.  

If the users opt for the second, then there is a button asking the bot “how do you know what's good?” it would go on to explain that it has been trained on “over 2 million indicators of objectively good music”, including Pitchfork reviews. Once the users enter the website, ‘The Pudding’ bot will analyze their year-end review or the Spotify Wrapped 2020 and judge the taste of their music. The process takes a hilarious turn when it promises it will judge “your awful taste in music.” Along with it, the users will be also be welcomed with several “omg” and “lol” as the machine trawls through their music library, reports The Sun.

Now, for example, if the bot finds you out to be an Ariana Grande fan, it will ask: “You’ve been listening to a lot of Ariana Grande lately. u ok?” or if you are a fan of Kanye West, it complains, “oh great another Kanye West stan…”

How the Internet reacted to ‘The Pudding’ Spotify bot?

A lot of social media users got intrigued by the idea and decided to go ahead and roast themselves to have some fun. They spoke about the same on Twitter where one of them posted, “Okay, this Spotify AI really has it out for me. (In the most upsettingly fair way imaginable.)” One user asked, “As a Tidal user, I need you to judge me for listening to sad old white men who play acoustic guitars. When is support for other services coming?” 

Another expressed, “Spotify Bot read me to filth and I'm honestly too shamed to share it. Let's just say 2020 was mostly Tycho and Lady Gaga with some callbacks to the Pokemon 2 B A Master album.” One user shared his experience and posted, “that spotify bot simultaneously called me a "balding weezer fan" and a "14 year old that just discovered punk" I hope we never give robots rights.” Another added, “Thanks to that Spotify AI I am glad to announce I am 7% basic.”