Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Read: “Of course we knew about it, we started it. But the bad publicity was becoming a problem so we do it less now.”

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  • arararagi@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ding, videos and articles showcasing it must have become popular all of a sudden.

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Buy music directly from artists. Plenty of them sell their tracks online.

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  • magusfungus@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can’t recommend Bandcamp fridays enough.

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  • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That requires you to buy all your music though, for those (like me) that own basically nothing, it’s crazy to change.

    They need to force the free streaming of owned tracks or something. Qobuz allows this I think, but only if you buy through them.

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    • wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Bandcamp even allows free streaming when you don’t own the music. But the player sucks

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Host a Navidrome server in docker to stream it.

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    • magguzu@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I host one for VGM since that isn’t on any streaming site. Going strong for two years.

      With “regular” music though losing the discover ability would really suck :/

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  • nuggie_ss@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can also use programs like Nicotine+ to download music for free.

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• Somecall_metim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Guessing advertisers didn’t want to spend money putting up ads for bots and told Spotify to do something about it.

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• baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ok now stop paying Joe Rogan a billion dollars a year, and then I’d consider coming back.

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  • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And stop injecting extra ads into podcasts for subscribers

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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, you’re right. I would still never consider going back. Evil fucks

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  • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    At this point, that wouldn’t be enough. They’d need a new, better CEO at the very least

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hatsune Miku sweating bullets all of a sudden.

  Real talk though, there’s a whole genre of non-slop vocaloid music that these policies might affect, if I’m reading the rules strictly.

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  • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, I really wonder where Synth V created songs will fall under this rule, cause even though the VAs were paid and it still requires good tuning, they’re technically AI… Maybe the older songs and the new popular songs will be fine due to having recognition, but any new small time producers are gonna suffer if they’ve got boys doing the checking.

    I don’t use Spotify, but I assume they do know Vocaloid (and Miku) exists right? At least YT music has a recommended playlist for vocaloid songs anyway.

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    • pycorax@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s an issue with how AI is defined though isn’t it? A decade ago, no one would have counted Miku as AI. It’s just that marketing teams and the media has abused the term that now almost any algorithm can be termed AI even if it never utilizes any mechanism that would be under the umbrella of the academics’ definition of AI.

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    • arararagi@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Miku is more of an instrument, it’s why only musicians used it compared to AI slop.

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• SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Headline misleading. Makes it sound like this is a problem that they are just getting around to fixing. Reality is this is an intentional business decision that has made them tons of money and they are now publicly claiming to address it when their subscribers are sick of listening to AI slop.

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• LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Already dropped them.

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