https://5mag.net/features/boomy-ai-music-company-shitmusic-streams/
"The fiasco around AI-generated music has embroiled Spotify — and a company
that claims to have produced more than 14% of all the recorded music in the
world is in the crossfire.
On May 3, multiple news sources reported that Spotify was purging “tens of
thousands of songs” uploaded by an AI music generating start-up called Boomy.
Boomy claims their users have “created” nearly 15 million songs using its AI
generator, which they estimate as embodying “around 14.17% of the world’s
recorded music.” The tracks were flagged by recording giant Universal Music,
according to a source cited by the
Financial Times.
There has been an increasing sharp tenor of user complaints and industry
forewarnings about a tsunami of shit-tier AI-generated tracks overwhelming
streaming platforms. But that isn’t why Spotify purged them. Universal,
according to
FT, reported “suspicious streaming activity on Boomy tracks,”
which usually means bots were being used to artificially increase plays, and
thus payouts for their creators.
This is the logical endgame of streamonomics: bots making music strictly and
perhaps solely to be listened to by other bots. The only human interaction
would be your monthly subscription fee."
Via mondblum and Diane A.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
