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A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
I want a world of abundance where all humans share equally in the fruits of automation. Where the only thing that we NEED to do is make art. I don't want a world where AI makes "art". I think a lot of people from nearly ever age group associate music strongly with human expression and culture. No wonder this isn't popular.
On the positive, Tidal recently added a toggle to block AI music. Naturally I flipped it right away.
Earlier this summer, the company rolled out a new feature called “Talk to Spotify,” allowing Premium users to interact with the platform more conversationally via a chatbot interface.
“I feel like Spotify is coming alive, and you can literally start talking to it,” Söderström said.
The level of delusion is phenomenal.
My $BRAND has a voice now, and you must worship it
Is that the feature I go out of my way to avoid?
Like all I want is search and play. Maybe saving artists and playlists if you’re fancy.
The tool has yet to launch, but when it does, it will be a paid add-on.
They think people will pay extra for this?
I choose to parse “tool” as a disparaging epithet in this context, instead of the classical definition
“I feel like Spotify is coming alive, and you can literally start talking to it,” Söderström said.
I don't want to talk to my tools, I want them to do things. Introducing a layer where misunderstanding is rampant (conversation) is a horrible experience.
I'm starting to get the feeling that AIs are a lot like monorails.
I’m so glad the stock tanked as a very direct result.
I’m also glad I ditched them after they started letting ICEatzgruppen run ads on their platform.
At this rate, I am more likely to cancel my payments to them enitrely
Do it! There are plenty of open source alternatives, like Bandcamp, Deezer, etc.
I don’t think either of those are open source.
bittorrent sure is
Seeker is the P2P music platform you're looking for.
I think you meant Soulseek (or Nicotine for linux).
Do you have a link. I'm finding a handful or music things called seeker.
My bad. seeker is the android client. soulseek is the name of the network it taps into. i don't have any links for you.
Awesome, that's good enough. I think I found what you're talking about. Thank you.
Tidal has the option to automatically filter out AI songs btw.
and Qobuz prohibits AI songs completely.
As well as allowing you to buy music DRM-free so you can download and keep it, even if the release is removed/replaced on their side. Made dropping Spotify a much easier choice.
partake in this AI tailwind
some limitations and more ads than before
A completely natural part of the enshittification playbook
Someone posted a video for a song the other day and I thought it sounded pretty good. Then I found it on Spotify and saw the credits showed it was composed with GenAI. The fact it did actually have a real human singer threw me off because I could feel something from it, which I don't with 100% AI music. Bummed me right the fuck out.
Of course they do. That way they don't have to pay any musicians. Just flood the entire platform with slop.
I've been listening to this channel called Weird A.I., that does all these parodies of famous songs. The A.I. that does it is really clever, it just needs more accordion.
There's one the guy writes all the lyrics for the music and he's pretty funny
I want two things: a shitload of music, and an awesome way to manage a personal library of favorites.
WinAmp nailed this 30 years ago, fuck off with the big touch target negative space design and broken search, forget podcasts, audio books, blablabla.
It really did whip the llama's ass.
Abso-fucking-lutely not
Those spotify execs really have their finger on the pulse. Their grotesquely huge bonuses grew three times that day. /s
I don't care for "celebrities" but I like my music human.
AI's never going to make music that speaks to me until it can shoot up heroin, urinate on groupies during coke-fueled orgies, snort lines of ants, and bite the head off of a bat. Without that it just doesn't understand our struggles on an emotional and spiritual level.
Just like I like my women. And coffee.
That is probably disappointing to hear for the bitches.
Shooting themselves in the foot. Most artists already pay more into Spotify to setup and promote their work than they make from royalties. Now they want to cut the Artist out. Braindead execs.
LOL, you'd have to pay me to listen to AI slop.
And where are all the Spotify defenders claiming that "buht Spotify banned AI slop!!" ?
Spotify has been upping its experimentation with artificial intelligence recently, banking on a slew of new AI-driven product features to continue the rise in paid subscriptions.
“There is plenty of industry debate about AI investment and costs,” Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström said on the company’s earnings call. “Our view is that being an AI beneficiary means winning on the cost side too.”
They’ll pay themselves and problem solved. Isnt what tech giants always do? They circulate their worm money in between