• Lovable Sidekick
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    2 days ago

    Most of us make fun of the stupid everyday masses for supporting laws that only benefit people who are vastly richer than they’ll ever be. But I’m almost guaranteed to get douchevoted for pointing out that the vast majority of musicians never get famous, never get recording contracts, but make their living day to day playing little gigs wherever they can find them. They don’t materially suffer if AI includes patterns from their creations in its output, because they don’t get any revenue streams from it to begin with. Realistically they’re the people most of us should identify with, but instead we rally behind the likes of Paul McCartney and Elton John as if they represent us. McCartney’s a billionaire and Elton’s more than halfway there - they both own recording companies ffs. If you’re going to do simple meme-brained thinking and put black or white hats on people, at least get the hats right.

    • sunzu2
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      22 days ago

      Taylor swift is another one… She really fought them record labels lol

      Good for her but she has no class solidarity with peasants anymore than the rest of owner class.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 days ago

      Yeah, but if the politicians don’t listen to hurt celebrities who then will they listen to? -The poors?

      /s