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Joey La Neve DeFrancesco

@joeyquits
6 posts
2024-12-21
We've long suspected that Spotify was recruiting fake artists and juicing them in its algorithm and placing them on the most popular playlists. Liz Pelly collected the internal docs + other evidence to finally prove it. [image]
2024-12-21 View on X
Harper's

How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

here's what's going on Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : ‘Ghosts’ of Spotify  —  Liz Pelly, Harpers: … Reading this article made me feel quite sad. Bluesky: @nanobii.com : the spotify “fake...

Read it here: https://harpers.org/... Even for a longtime Spotify hater, it's shocking how systematic and deliberate the fake artist program is.
2024-12-21 View on X
Harper's

How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

here's what's going on Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : ‘Ghosts’ of Spotify  —  Liz Pelly, Harpers: … Reading this article made me feel quite sad. Bluesky: @nanobii.com : the spotify “fake...

2023-03-02
Who could have predicted our existing power structures would once again be mapped onto this new technology? https://www.vice.com/...
2023-03-02 View on X
Fast Company

A profile of OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, who previously led Tesla's Model X development and has been at the helm of OpenAI's strategy to test its tools in public

OpenAI unlocked the generative-AI boom with tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E—and that's why it's our Most Innovative Company of the Year. Tweets: @ainsleyoc , @imkarthikk , @mikehofma...

Who could have predicted our existing power structures would once again be mapped onto this new technology? https://www.vice.com/...
2023-03-02 View on X
VICE

OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit to “focus on a positive human impact”, now operates as a closed-source, for-profit company at the center of a chatbot arms race

2021-04-17
From all the numbers I've seen, Apple does not in fact pay a cent per stream. Far from it. And we need to continue to push them on that. But the fact that they're declaring it as a goal is a big deal. https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-04-17 View on X
Variety

Looking at payment per stream metrics for music streaming services can be misleading when considering artist pay, as many factors determine streaming royalties

Early Friday, Apple Music sent a carefully worded letter to artists, music labels and publishers that briefly explained …

From all the numbers I've seen, Apple does not in fact pay a cent per stream. Far from it. And we need to continue to push them on that. But the fact that they're declaring it as a goal is a big deal. https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-04-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

In a letter to artists, Apple says it pays a penny per stream, roughly double Spotify, which pays an average of about one-third to half a penny per stream

Double What Spotify Pays Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard : Apple Music Says Per-Stream Royalty Rate Is Double What Spotify Pays Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Philip Elmer‑DeWitt : Apple vs. S...