Post B4YUaQbp6mPAYUXN4K by brucelawson@vivaldi.net
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 (DIR) Post #B4YUaQbp6mPAYUXN4K by brucelawson@vivaldi.net
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       A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?
       
 (DIR) Post #B4ZayEIdJucWD9FnNo by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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       I don't understand what it has to do with capitalism at all.That seems more like late-stage Soviet Empire stuff. Also, you don't use an LLM to generate songs. An LLM is literally a Large Language Model. He had to use a mixed-model or audio-model. I never use music streaming services. I have a massive SD card in my phone with all my music. Some I've pirated, some I've ripped from CDs I've bought at shows, some I've bought from Bandcamp (before they started censoring people). If you BUY your music and give artists money directly at shows instead of renting it, you're providing them value and getting value.There was a lot of fraud with fake streaming long before the AI era. There are videos of people with a wall of cellphones setup where they select the same tracks over and over. This guy just automated that process, probably making it easier for him to get caught too.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4ZbN7ztt93NuAMdXs by sun@shitposter.world
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       @djsumdog @brucelawson probably a GAN