Spotify Employees Say It's Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones
Spotify Employees Say It's Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones
According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying piddling royalties to real artists.
and this, friends, is what us anti-ai people been warning about with regards to ip ownership all along. it's not that we're anti piracy, it's that if there's a set of rules for the people, and a set of rules for the technoligarchs, who's getting fucked is the people.
Oh boy, another reason to hate Spotify.
- platform racists
- pay racists for exclusive rights to platform
- remove songs requested taken down by authoritarian governments because it's important to them they do business in those countries (apparently)
- leave "heil hitler" up despite it being an obvious problem "because it's not their place to censor art" (see prior point)
- use algorithms to push down challenging and importart art and promote unchallenging consumable music, or worse right wing propaganda
- the media bubbles regardless of what's in the bubbles isolate us
- don't pay artists what their music is worth even though what we pay for is access to the music the artists make
- this ai bullshit
what else am i missing? because i know there's tons more
And Spotify owns the AI "artist" so they get paid
As if the youtuber get rick quick scheme of ai generating remixes and puttting them on Spotify wasn't dumb enough.
I have no problem with music that is / has AI generation. I have a problem (and always have had a problem) with people that are straight up counterfeiting legit pieces with these legally distinct AI remixes.