Amazon Music's Artist Conflation

LessWrong reports on a persistent quality problem with Amazon Music: the platform conflates different artists with the same name into single profiles, making them nearly impossible to find correctly. A user seeding recommendations with indie contra-dance bands like Kingfisher, Nova, and Great Bear found them tangled with other acts. Notably, when tested on the same recommendation task, small language models like Gemini Flash and Claude Haiku produced significantly better artist suggestions. The user also notes that Spotify handles these same bands without confusion, suggesting this isn't a fundamental problem.

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