Former Beatle and artists including Sam Fender, Kate Bush and Hans Zimmer record silent LP Is This What We Want

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I think what it’s saying is that if AI is what starts making money, the music industry will exploit the hell out of that.

    Imagine making millions of dollars, from a band that doesn’t exist, that you created, that you keep all money from their sales.

    What would be your motivator to pay human artists? Why sign any?

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      41 minutes ago

      Wouldn’t put it past them to try.

      The recording industry loves making money off of artists who are long dead. Reminds me of that opening to Ministry’s Ghouldiggers, where the singer is talking about how some artists are being sold off in pieces. Kurt Cobain. Janis Joplin. So many more.

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      What would be your motivator to pay human artists? Why sign any?

      I mean, the internet has given artists a way to spread their works and profit off them without any major record labels. So what artists will lose by that are exploitative companies whose only benefit is that your music will be sold by major retailers as physical CDs or Downloads.