Fuck AI

So spotify has stolen their music. We have the technology to do anything we want, but someone needs to pay for it. Billionaires are holding us back. Billionaires are choosing not to end hunger or poverty. Remember that: rich people are choosing not to end hunger, homeless, or poverty. In fact, the rich are making it worse.

So gross. I'm not going back to Spotify.

But given the AI imitations that are still invading Release Radar and Discover Weekly playlists, which the company prominently recommends to its users

This is the turbo-shitty part of the whole thing.

Facebook do this as well; they act like they've got too many users to police everything that gets uploaded, and you could almost believe them on that, but they sure as fuck have the resources to be able to police what they're choosing to boost.

They're choosing not to do that, because The Algorithm is highly tuned around "how many dollars can we make next month" and they'd rather use that as their metric.

Recently read Spotify is running ads for the USA gestapo.

Fully unsubbed/deleted same day. Hell to the no.

Did you know that in the US you can copy spotify AI knockoff and sell them ? As it is not human produced, they are not protected by IP laws 🤭

Spotify is an advertising platform, first and foremost. They don't give a fuck about music or artists.

Kind Gizzard can still drop albums faster than AI.

That is illegal in germany. So i wonder how that now works

Spotify hates musicians. Bandcamp, Tidal if you need Spotify like service.

I know it doesn't matter much, but it pleases me that Spotify isn't getting my money.

I literally got recommended this AI band as well. Normally I can search: "X band AI" and I get results whether or not they are real.

All I had were 50 pages about the original band leaving Spotify.

I blocked this suspicious sounding band in-case it was AI. Looks like I was right.

Just as a note: earlier this year I stated I'd keep subscribing to Spotify because the recommendations were worth the cost. I was wrong, and I'm slowly starting my transition away.

I just don't understand anyone wpuld Listen to an AI knockoff of KG when you can find all of their concerts uploaded by their official bootlegger on the archive.

Them pulling out of Spotify was the last push I needed to switch to Tidal. The only downside for me is there was a spotify exclusive cover of Daisy by Wet Leg that you can’t get anywhere else.

I haven't used spotify for years. I never paid for it. I've been buying music (mostly from Bandcamp) and I have no regrets. I try to see bands live when I can, too, and buy a shirt or something.

Repulsive.

Also, can't they sue?

I honestly never went to Spotify. I listen to music between YT and Soundcloud most of the time, just about every song you can think of is on there and a lot of indie artists you never heard of, although SoundCloud appears to be getting worse by the day you now need to close 3 popup windows before you're allowed to listen to music without signing in and a lot of the music on there is sped up or has a sharp ping in it to avoid detection algorithms.

I'm currently using OpenTune. Works great. What are you guys on?