Bots listening to bots

toddbishop

toddbishop

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The future of music, ladies and gentlemen:

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I mean... not really. It's just the hilarious, inevitable conclusion to this music/musician hating tech supremacist thing:

1) Seize the music business and demonetize it.
2) Remonetize at vastly below cost based on clicks.
3) Ehh get rid of human musicians, we have to pay them, and can't. And don't want to.
4) Ehh get rid of human audiences, ungrateful b_____ don't like our bot-created music.
5) Ehh stop doing music altogether, switch to mining cryptocurrency.

Meanwhile humans are actually continuing to do music the way they always have, tech supremacist PR notwithstanding....
 
could he have stopped at 1m or 500k and got away with it?
 
The first I had heard of this waa Vulfpeck's clever "Sleepify" album a decade ago:

Sleepify is an album by the American funk band Vulfpeck, released March 2014. The release consists solely of ten roughly 30-second-long tracks of silence. The album was made available on the music streaming service Spotify, where the band encouraged consumers to play the album on a loop while they slept. In turn, royalties from the playing of each track on the "album" were to be used to crowdfund a free concert tour by the band.
 
prodigy4299 said:
The first I had heard of this waa Vulfpeck's clever "Sleepify" album a decade ago:

Sleepify is an album by the American funk band Vulfpeck, released March 2014. The release consists solely of ten roughly 30-second-long tracks of silence. The album was made available on the music streaming service Spotify, where the band encouraged consumers to play the album on a loop while they slept. In turn, royalties from the playing of each track on the "album" were to be used to crowdfund a free concert tour by the band.
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Neat trick, that also shows how ludicrous the whole business model is-- for an act to make any money, fans have to be listening to them and no one else many hours a day, every day. They could have made the same bread selling ~2000 CDs. It took about 24,000 hours of "listening" for them to generate that, so I don't know how many thousands of people were big enough fans to participate.
 
While it's bad, how exactly is it illegal? Isn't Spotify doing the same? I read/heard many times they generate their own fake artists/ai music. And then, is it illegal to make a bot to automatically listen to music? Might be against the platform rules. He was just too greedy.
 
Google results return 2 semi-trustable sources for this story...one(NY Times) is behind a paywall and the other (FUTURISIM) is known for 'embellishment'.

That's really the story...is Google obscuring the story?...is it fake?....is it real?...is my internet feed being artificially manipulated ; )?

Either way, looks like this story has a hopeful implied belief of the definition of 'Fraud'. I don't believe the source of a song being fraud at question here(its not fraud to use software to write songs)...its the by-passing of the advertising tracking via the use of bots that's at issue....not controversial and law is in place for a very long time to deal with this(though not all regions)...the click bait wording of the title is the issue surrounding this story.

Yay for greed and click farms...though why this and not 'promises for future jobs to those in public offices' is considered toxic is beyond me.
 
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