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 this is so depressing. Soul music with no soul. Services like Spotify obviously don't care because they make money https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Mark-Disable-AI-Generated-Songs/idc-p/7382376#M347595

I thought the promise of AI / LLMs was to take away the drudgery and let people make art and enjoy leisure.

Cc @mekkaokereke as this feels like the sort of crap he's been warning us about for a long time