Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊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?
Humphrey Archer@brucelawson
Easter Island comes to mind, but this is just faster and a bigger scale.
Cutting down forests to create more and more effigies eventually doomed the culture, but it took centuries and only killed off that one settlement. Generating artificial songs by the million to be paid for because a million robots watched, is just a less durable and faster way of social suicide.
On the plus side, some future anthropologist will write her PhD on this