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highplainsdem

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14. Spotify makes more money from AI-generated music. It can't be copyrighted, so they don't have to

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #13)

Thu Jan 15, 2026, 12:25 PM

2 hrs ago

pay royalties. Spotify also has a lot of music under different names, often fake names, by songwriters and musicians doing what's called work for hire, which Spotify owns outright and so pays no royalties on. The more of this garbage they can get people to accept, the higher their profits.

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Bandcamp has banned all music made with AI [View all] highplainsdem 21 hrs ago OP

Good for them!!!!! SheltieLover 21 hrs ago #1

I wish them well. It is fraught. Bluetus 21 hrs ago #2

Because those tools are trained illegally on stolen intellectual property, any use of them is unethical highplainsdem 21 hrs ago #3

And btw, what you wrote about AI being used at all levels of the music industry "for a long time" is wrong and highplainsdem 20 hrs ago #4

By "long time" I mean 5+ years Bluetus 15 hrs ago #10

I don't believe that AI music taking over is inevitable - that's propaganda from the AI companies. And highplainsdem 14 hrs ago #11

Just to be clear, my use of the AI material Bluetus 2 hrs ago #15

You're still likely to end up encouraging some of those people to use AI. highplainsdem 2 hrs ago #16

What highplainsdem said jfz9580m 18 hrs ago #7

Now, if only Spotify and the other streaming platforms... LudwigPastorius 19 hrs ago #5

Very cool. ❤️ littlemissmartypants 19 hrs ago #6

I absolutely can't stand ai so called music. tazcat 16 hrs ago #8

I am a happy CAMPER and have been for years. Tikki 15 hrs ago #9

I am of the view that criminal liability is the only deterrent at this point jfz9580m 5 hrs ago #12

Why aren't they all doing this? FakeNoose 4 hrs ago #13

Spotify makes more money from AI-generated music. It can't be copyrighted, so they don't have to highplainsdem 2 hrs ago #14