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Spotify Boycott: Artists Leave ‘Garbage Hole’ Platform After CEO Invests in AI Weapons
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, JUL 31 – Several prominent artists removed their music after Spotify CEO invested $700 million in Helsing, an AI weapons defense firm, fueling ongoing protests over artist compensation.
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Spotify boycott: Artists leave ‘garbage hole’ platform after CEO invests in AI weapons
By August Brown, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Greg Saunier already had reasons to be wary of Spotify. The founder of the acclaimed Bay Area band Deerhoof was well acquainted with the service’s meager payouts to artists and songwriters, often estimated around $3 per thousand streams. He was unnerved by the service’s splashy pivots into AI and podcasting, where right-wing, conspiracy-peddling hosts like Joe Rogan got multimillion-dollar contrac…
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While Spotify users worm their way through a maze of AI-generated slop, the streaming giant's executives are dealing with an exodus of musicians after CEO Daniel Ek was working on a massive investment into an AI military weapons firm. Through his tech investment company, Prima Materia, Ek led a $690 million funding round into Helsing, a German drone and AI weapons tech company, as reported by the Financial Times. Four years earlier, Ek — who als…
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Spotify, the world’s biggest music streaming platform, is facing a growing backlash after its CEO, Daniel Ek, renewed his investment in a German company developing AI military technology. The move has prompted a number of independent musicians to remove their work from the platform in protest, reigniting the long-standing debate over artist compensation and corporate ethics in the digital age. The controversy centres on Ek’s investment firm, Pri…
The revelation of the business activities of Daniel Ek, founder and general manager of Spotify, has caused several artists to want to leave and even boycott the platform, as the information from the British Financial Times reported that they have invested more than 600 million euros in the manufacture of weapons. With this, the artists assure that Spotify uses people’s money to later finance the manufacture of war weapons such as drones, planes …
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