Notices by MBR (mbr@metalhead.club)

I'm re-reading the paper that got @timnitGebru fired from Google and I'm realising now how they foreseen every problem related to LLM we're facing now. It's always good to re-read good papers (and depressing sometimes)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

Remember how Spotify stopped paying artists who don't stream a lot (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/30/spotify-smaller-artists-wrapped-indie-musicians)? Now we also know they silently inject stock music into playlists to increase their margins (and ofc decrease the artists' ones). The next step is obviously AI-generated music, that'll be the best move to increase their revenue again. If you love music, Spotify is really a platform to avoid at all costs.

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/