Ok now stop paying Joe Rogan a billion dollars a year, and then I’d consider coming back.
And stop injecting extra ads into podcasts for subscribers
Read: "Of course we knew about it, we started it. But the bad publicity was becoming a problem so we do it less now and present it so we look like the defender of true art."
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.
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.
Edit: I know that Miku isn't AI, and I'd never call her + the others AI. But Krypton has given Miku and the others AI voicebanks recently (although I heard the aren't that good) and Synth V is getting more popular (Teto, Yi Xi, Elanor Forte, etc.). Hell, there are some Synth V songs that I've heard that I thought were real people...
But I'm worried about those who don't know this info just doing a blanket "no robots/no AI" and nuking Vocaloid/V Synth songs
Guessing advertisers didn't want to spend money putting up ads for bots and told Spotify to do something about it.
Buy music directly from artists. Plenty of them sell their tracks online.
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.
Host a Navidrome server in docker to stream it.
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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