ds42

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   by ds42 3y ago

   But the artists never made any money in the first place. Spotify allowed for the insanely long tail of no-play artists to get a platform to begin with, paying a nominal fee seems like not that big of a deal, considering the same folks would
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   by ds42 3y ago

   The irony being that it would have massively benefitted from a huge range of ML tools, be it the crusty audio or the atrocious pacing. But I mean... same deal as every day, pop-luddites squeezing their audiences for subscribers (another bou
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   by ds42 3y ago

   sure, but at this point, people are going to just freaking demolish server farms by hand I'm not sure how we'll handle the income problem, but once the shoe drops, and drop it will, very soon, I have a feeling that core existentia
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   by ds42 3y ago

   Yeah, my take as well. I think "Her" portrayed it nicely; you can still get your human-written poem or whatever nonsense you want to be made by hand, doesn't mean everyone has to dispatch atrociously meaningless or repetitive
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   by ds42 3y ago

   I mean, sure, but that's not to be blamed on ML-anything. It's explicitly the human problem, because against all odds, it turns out that we have been the paperclip optimizers all along. Yeah, it can go awry, but so far I don'