[mcpar-land]

Spotify has a history of intentionally boosting internally produced, royalty-free and/or AI music over actual artists.

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin...

[troupo]

That article is bandied around, and no one either reads or understands what's written there. Neither do article authors BTW.

1. Spotify doesn't have "internally produced music"

2. There are companies that provide white-label ambient/white noise/similar music.

3. Spotify may have preferential licensing deals with some of them (as any company would seek preferential contract terms)

4. Some of that music is generated (AI or otherwise)

[butlike]

Preferential contracts to AI-gen music makers is equivalent to "internally produced music" in my mind, even though they're not technically equivalent.

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