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Spotify is creating fake music to save on royalties (twitter.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/what-is-the-deal-with-all-the-fake-artists-on-spotify/

imagine having so sick and warped a mind that you come up with an idea like this. oh what if i open a gas station but we water down all the gas

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[–] monotremata@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago

The last time this happened, the deal was that the music was generated by bots, and also listened to by bots. Basically it was a scheme to get money out of Spotify.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/spotify-ejects-thousands-of-ai-made-songs-in-purge-of-fake-streams/

But also, folks will use AI to generate anything these days, like these books that suggested that a good way to identify whether mushrooms are poisonous is to taste them.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/mushroom-pickers-urged-to-avoid-foraging-books-on-amazon-that-appear-to-be-written-by-ai