RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116332497422486698

this is digital blackface and racist as fuck.

whomever is doing this knows Black people are THE Culture; so how swell it is to make money off Black culture without Black people?

and don't get me started with the fact that automata are proxies for SLAVES.

don't hesitate to call out Alphabet/Google/Youtube for making money off Black digital slaves.

this isn't progress. this is still baldfaced racism.

@blogdiva If it was created by a robot, then the work has less value than if a human created it. I can still enjoy the music, but I don't think that robots should be able to claim ad revenue. That said, this is platforms using ai generated music to keep more of the revenue pool for themselves, or by spammers to take a slice of the pie without putting in the work. It doesn't matter if people actually like the music because robots are the primary audience.