Apple’s AI Playlist Playground is bad at musicThe article reviews Apple's new Playlist Playground beta feature in Apple Music, which uses AI to generate playlists based on text prompts. The author tests the feature with specific music requests like 'atmospheric instrumental black metal to write to' and finds it consistently fails to understand genre requirements, delivering tracks with vocals when instrumental was requested. The article compares Apple's AI playlist generator unfavorably to YouTube Music's similar feature, noting that while YouTube Music also has flaws, it performs significantly better at understanding prompts and delivering appropriate music.The Verge·Mar 26, 2026
