One other one bites the mud: Younger Widows are pulling their music from Spotify. The Louisville post-hardcore band, who launched their first album in over a decade again in March, introduced the information in an Instagram put up as we speak that cited CEO Daniel Ek’s current funding in army AI.
In June it was introduced that Ek, who’s additionally a boss of a German army AI software program startup known as Helsing, had invested over a half a billion {dollars} into that firm. Younger Widows be a part of a protracted, ever-growing listing of artists fleeing Spotify since then, following WU LYF, Hotline TNT, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Deerhoof, and Xiu Xiu. Younger Widows’ assertion reads:
We’ve determined to take away our discography from Spotify. The disgusting information of their CEO Daniel Elk investing income in Helsing to create Al warfare is a breaking level.
We don’t assist genocide.
We don’t assist battle of any form.
To suppose that our followers cash is getting used to spend money on future machines to kill the harmless is past inhumane and unacceptable. We do perceive that there’s actually no simply capitalism and each massive firm in existence has both direct ties or personnel inside which can be funding means to manage, exploit and manipulate the individuals. We’re greater than conscious that each streaming platform has its flaws and till individuals worth artists sufficient to understand streaming has an total unfavorable affect on music, we are going to proceed to make use of the opposite platforms at present accessible.
We don’t apologize for the inconvenience.
Simply as alarming as funding battle from artwork is Spotify’s use of Al to “create” music/bands, even making new albums from deceased artists. Not solely does this diminish artists and degrades their legacy, nevertheless it makes one thing that than conscious that Al is just not going anyplace anytime quickly, nevertheless it’s a device that must be used to assist humanity, not take pleasure from us.
Ostensibly in response to the current Spotify backlash, Apple Music launched a function final month that enables customers to import their playlists from different streaming platforms into Apple Music.
