r/Music • u/ebradio • Jul 21 '25

music Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission

https://www.404media.co/spotify-publishes-ai-generated-songs-from-dead-artists-without-permission/
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u/Ragnar_of_Ballard Jul 21 '25

Spotify is a horrible, right-wing company. Zero concern for people or art/artists. It is ALL about making money.

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u/FruitChips23 Jul 21 '25

right-wing

[Citation needed]

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u/Acc87 Jul 21 '25

They sponsored a nice dinner for Trump

https://www.visions.de/news/spotify-unterstuetzt-amtseinfuehrung-donald-trumps/

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u/Ragnar_of_Ballard Jul 21 '25

Exactly

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u/Acc87 Jul 22 '25

Guess the clue was always in the name: The goal is to sell as many advertising spots as possible between whatever media.

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u/CobrasMama Jul 21 '25

Spotify's CEO invested $700,000,000 into developing AI weapons systems for the government.

https://djmag.com/news/spotifys-daniel-ek-leads-eu600-million-investment-ai-military-defence-company

It doesn't get more right wing than helping the war machine kill scores of innocent people.

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u/FruitChips23 Jul 21 '25

TIL Obama was right wing

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u/CobrasMama Jul 21 '25

Obama performed 10x+ more drone strikes than George W Bush, killing between 384 and 807 civilians.

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/obamas-covert-drone-war-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush

His predecessor, George W Bush, started a war that killed 1 MILLION civilians, displaced 4.5 MILLION civilians, and created 5 MILLION orphans.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/bushs-war-totals/

But sure, keep telling yourself whatever lies make you feel better.

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u/Rushdude Jul 21 '25

Well, kind of yeah. The Overton window in the US is and has been for quite some time, considerably right of most western nations. The US doesn't really have a left wing party, they have a far-right party and a center-right that has some left leaning politicians in their tent.

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u/FuckTripleH Jul 21 '25

You're only learning that today?

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u/Landkval Jul 22 '25

Such a smoothbrain take. But lets go back to pirateing songs again. Which is 100% what would happen if it were not for spotify and likes. Spotify’s margins on royalties are really small.

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u/Ragnar_of_Ballard Jul 23 '25

**found the pro-corporation boot-licker who is also cool with fascism!

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u/snanarctica Jul 21 '25

60,000 songs a day are posted. I’m pretty sure the artists are the enemy of artists lol

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u/RickyNixon Jul 21 '25

Because artists looking to be successful have to have a Spotify presence because of its market share…. Dumb argument

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u/snanarctica Jul 21 '25

Wha??? Why the down votes? I was joking. I’m sick of people blaming all these big companies as if there stopping them from their dreams. Or maybe Spotify goes out of business and they suddenly become popular. Spotify isn’t to blame. Music is way easy to record now. The barrier of entry to record a song you wrote is gone. If you want money then play hundreds of live shows and work on drawing your audience. If you think Spotify will make you famous? That’s bs

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u/Dependent-Mode-3119 Jul 21 '25

Spotify is a horrible, right-wing company.

Words have meanings dawg. What do you mean right wing?

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u/PresentSquirrel Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 23 '25

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u/Dependent-Mode-3119 Jul 21 '25

I litterally don't. What makes Spotify right wing in a way that is meaningfully different than any company existing under the current capitalist system.