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?

@brucelawson That's infuriating. Also, predictable.

And influencers are using AI to add to their stories with a musical style of their choosing and their own lyrics. Where does this leave real musicians and singers?!?

@kimlockhartga @brucelawson

somehow this reminds me of "butchers pigs" (ceramic ornaments of pigs in a butchers uniform and apron smiling and wielding meat cleavers, which were often on display in butchers here in England)