Poisoning AI scrapers

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• madame_gaymes@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yo, that’s Benn Fucking Jordan, aka The Flashbulb!

  He’s always had great views on this stuff. From his wiki about piracy:

  After the collapse of Sublight Records, instead of taking on another contract, Jordan purchased his previous licenses and released his most anticipated album, Soundtrack to a Vacant Life, on his own record label, Alphabasic Records. On the day of its release, he personally uploaded copies of the album to music piracy sites, including a small HTML file explaining his relaxed views on file sharing and showing listeners where they could give support if they desired. This resulted in attention by the mainstream press, and the album became the most downloaded album on many popular file sharing networks.

  Jordan has spoken extensively on issues of net neutrality, free speech, and copyright laws in the music world. In an interview with TorrentFreak, he encourages involvement in these issues and warns against corporations like Amazon or iTunes and their ability to stem the free flow of information. File sharing, to Jordan, is a way of bypassing this potential oppression and accessing information freely. In the aforementioned interview, Jordan notes that “file trading is just a peephole to a much larger picture. Copyright, in its current state, holds information at ransom for monetary value. While in music it can stifle culture and art, with literature and education it can be nothing less than a weapon of class warfare.”

  In a 2024 episode of “The New Music Business” podcast Jordan reviewed these perspectives in the context of having been the subject of False Streaming Activity and having had his music taken down by distributors.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve seen him at festivals twice. The first time, he played a fantastic set to a TINY crowd in the main building. I feel like nobody knew he was in there. It was intimate and lovely.

    The second time, he played to a big crowd at a stage outside, years later. All of the equipment somehow fucked up. He spent a good 10-20 minutes trying to get stuff working, with limited success. He said “aw well, guess I’ll improvise” and played one of my favorite sets I’ve ever seen. I didn’t expect as much Flashbulb Vocoder Voice as he provided, but I can never have enough vocoder.

    He’s so great.

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    • madame_gaymes@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The mark of a true performer. That sounds like a damn good time, both of them.

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• dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like this guy.

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  • Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah I have been following him for awhile, he has some great takes on things.

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• yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Keep calm and … what a magnificent shirt. I was always a fan of the taller of the Mario bros. The man not only is an entertainer - but clearly has inspired taste.

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• Cratermaker@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Love watching his videos, they go way beyond your average music production youtuber content. I generally think generative AI is an awesome tool in itself, but that it’s too ripe for the perversion of capitalistic greed. Like Jordan said in the video, it’s pretty disgusting to ingest years worth of hard work and dedication from many artists and then use the resulting model to compete with those same artists. I optimistically predict that the current approach to AI will never do much better than the grey slop it currently shits out, though.

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