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/Abraham_Lingam Jul 21 '25

AI is the enemy of humanity.

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u/KaJaHa Jul 21 '25

*AI with a profit motive

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u/scrundel Jul 21 '25

It’s a pre-alpha tech that was rushed to market to appease brain-rotted MBAs. There is no ethical use of this crap.

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u/lavendersuga Jul 22 '25

There's some noble uses of AI, but the money sullies any good that can come of it. If it's helpful but not profitable, it will be skipped. I saw something further down about climate change detection and with the datacenter stories I've seen online...that's rich.

Years ago, I was chasing a dev dream (of a more comfortable life and maybe some interesting work) and started taking programming classes. Started watching YouTube vids and all that because mentors got cut (cost too much, ha). The attitude was insufferable.

"(Topic) Is useless because it doesn't make any money" was the refrain I heard from most of these people. I was talking about taking Japanese lessons and dude says "What's the point of that?" I was interested and enjoy the language!? Any subject that wasn't STEM was pissed on. Like they wouldn't have to know their way around these topics in order to translate them into code.

They want to make stuff to get rich but disdain learning about the stuff humans like or how they behave. There's no "art" in them, and I've seen some boneheaded ideas for apps that would mess with people's livelihoods. It's an insensitivity thing with many of them, I figure.

Lots of fatherless Jordan Peterson fans in there at the time too (a decade or so, give or take).

It was a bit icky. I've asked for years what are they going to do with the jobless and got back empty answers, "there will be an adjustment to make" was about as kind as it got. They didn't think they'd be the ones on the chopping block but there are now moves toward that as well.

I've met more enlightened/humanistic IT people since but that duller layer is quite thick. Then their heroes try to philosophize and they open their mouths for that.

I moved away from it, but I'm afraid some of them didn't change. They're trolls with a little extra grey matter between the ears and no real depth.