An odd discovery on Spotify

Money is too valuable and rewarding that many people will constantly chase these hustle practices no matter the ethical implications or if they are shady. Even more so if they are legal.

With the current potential of AI and automation this just makes the resulting impact bigger for the 'good citizen consumer', like the sheet amount of autogenerated videos on YouTube that just read out loud some scrapped content, or even the stolen and reposted content, all in seek of finding a semiautomatic money cow that they can milk. After all, if that can give you easy scalable money, why not trying?

The bad part is that now consumers have to deal with a polluted search result and recommendations list, that is really hard to filter by the media owners because its a tough issue.

I understand the motivations, but I hate that the product degrades the quality as a result of a few actors .

Sometimes I wonder if this will always be the status quo in our world and I'm actually missing out on joining these practices as well and see if I can hit some jackpot, but I hate these side hustle practices.

"I love it, because it’s so strange, so dizzying, and — credit where due–because our mystery producer is truly going with the grain of the medium, in a way that no one merely “making albums” does, at all. What could be more 21st century, more “liquid modernity”, than releasing your music as a haze of variations into the swirling currents of the algorithm?"

But tons of artists have done the same in the past, whether in streaming platforms or in the vinyl and CD era. The most famous is probably Brian Eno who has made several albums using algorithmic generation.

In general, algorithmic composition is a sizable niche, both in academy (tons of music PhDs on that), live performance, and recording settings. And yes, people release those things too.

Even "generated content" to make bucks is a well known thing, both in music platforms like Spotify, in Amazon (tons of auto-generated Kindle books), and in YouTube (https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...).

The strange thing is, the author should already have known all this, as his previous post goes:

"My band The Cotton Modules, formed with the composer Jesse Solomon Clark, also goes with the grain of the 21st century: our process combines AI tools with human skill and imagination, metabolizing a huge archive of recorded music into something genuinely new and exciting."