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It sounds like a joke, or a bad episode of Black Mirror.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If ratings were so easy to manipulate we would dispute every single top hit no matter if it was LLM-generated or not.

I mean, yeah...

Drake just told on himself that was something that was done to inflate his own hits, so he assumed Kendrick had to have done the same thing.

Like, this has always been a thing, even back when it was giving a DJ an envelope of cash to get radio plays.

With an AI band, they don't have to pay a band. So they'll spend on this bullshit that, yes, human artists also use.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So there are 2 disputed (both denied inflating their numbers) examples in 19 years? Spotify invested millions into detecting fake listens as they have to pay out for them. And sure it might happen on small scale, but I haven't seen any verifiable information on it happening on a large scale. The cost of that would be enourmous as you need residential IPs to even try which are in limited supply.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So there are 2 disputed (both denied inflating their numbers) examples in 19 years?

...

If I said California had two NFL teams, would you take that to mean there's only two teams in the NFL?

Because that's what you're doing by acting like the only mentioned examples are the examples.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago

I haven't heard of any other cases.

I haven't seen any verifiable information on it happening on a large scale.

If you know of that being the case please educate me.