The crime here was faking the play counts with listening bots, thus closing the loop. If an artist built a machine to play their own song a billion times to make them money, that would also be a crime, I suppose.
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nirodhaavidya@lemmy.world 1 week agoHow is that different from Spotify producing their own AI-gen music? Seems like that’s 3-4 minutes of listening that otherwise would’ve been spent listening to an artist.
ChadGPT2@lemmy.world 1 week ago
faltryka@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No clue
rollerbang@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s different when a corporation does it.
/s