Hacker News Reader

Comment by Iflyblue | Hacker News Reader

I just learned that Spotify apparently likes to charge you for Taylor Swift while their algorithm pushes their own AI generated music into your ear buds which costs them nothing. That's how CEOs sell a couple billion dollars of stock options. Question is... Are you gonna continue to support him/them/they? I'm not. I'm gonna go for a bike ride right now and leave the ear buds home and listen to the sounds all around me. Take care y'all.

View on HN

Where did you learn this about AI generated music on Spotify?

Not OP but there's both accusations of AI generated music [0] and the slightly overlapping issue of Spotify owned music in playlists [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42526803

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461530

I need to correct my comment. I had read the ghost artists story here on YC and that was my referral. I didn't know Spotify was hiring musicians to create music that Spotify then owned the rights to and they pushed onto the consumer essentially paying themselves.

Spotify hires creators to create content that Spotify owns, then uses their platform to push it onto their own playlists. They aren't subbing out real artists songs for ghost artists when you ask for a specific song.

Literally the exact same thing that every video streaming service is doing. Isn't Netflix the biggest production company on earth at this point. At least if its a cover of a song the original artist still gets royalties.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com