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I hate to be so negative, but I think this is an awful addition to the web. It speaks authoritatively ("This song is about...") but appears to draw on the text of the song alone with none of the context available elsewhere.

I searched Ben Folds Five's "Brick," which is avowedly a song about abortion. Songtell has no idea, of course, because the allusions in the song are too oblique to be deciphered out of context.

I wish people wouldn't use AI to drown out the real information available on the web. At the very least, these pages should come with a disclaimer and meta tags/robots.txt preventing search engines from picking them up as facts.



Agreed.

"Beware the purveyors of instant wisdom." -my (dead) Grandpa, born in the 1910's.

CALLING FOR: AI ethicists need to publicize critical-reading / critical content-consumption HOWTO guides.

Similar experience with Hozier - Take me to church https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVjiKRfKpPI | https://www.songtell.com/hozier/take-me-to-church. The AI misses the "forbidden love" aspect of the song. It's still an amazing advancement in technology, however we are all willing to accept what is put in front of our faces, as humans. We are what we eat.

And so we risk being misled.


I will add a disclaimer that clearly states that the meaning of the song is generated by AI and might be misinterpreted. On top of that, as said before in another comment, rating and comment system.




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