Ask HN: So what's going on with Drake content at Spotify?

[jmheinkle]

Drake has dominated much of the algorithmically generated content on Spotify, to an extreme degree, leading to widespread complaints on social media.

I suspect this is a combination of: 1. Poor executions of algorithms, where the output is running unchecked 2. Legal and licensing agreements with the artist which prevent Spotify manually tipping the algorithms

Interesting implications: - Spotify's stock price: it's these algorithms and content that purportedly make Spotify so good

- As someone working in the space of ML, I grudge this misuse of algos. There's a real chance an incident like this will precipitate another "AI winter"

Thoughts?