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  • ikt@aussie.zonetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodesEnglish
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    8 days ago

    That is basically nothing for any artist that isn’t in the top tier of mainstream success.

    Did you not read your own article you linked to?

    • 1,000 monthly streams ≈ $3-5 (enough for a coffee)
    • 10,000 monthly streams ≈ $30-50 (could cover your streaming subscription)
    • 100,000 monthly streams ≈ $300-500 (now we’re talking meaningful income)
    • 1,000,000 monthly streams ≈ $3,000-5,000 (potentially livable wage depending on your location.

    https://simplebeen.com/artists-make-on-spotify/

    You’re essentially pirating music by using Spotify

    As above, you can see the payout rates in the article… a liveable wage on just Spotify alone is not equivalent to piracy which pays artists nothing, this is on top of Apple Music etc

    In 2024, Spotify alone paid out a record $10 billion to the music industry—totaling nearly $60 billion since our founding.

    10 billion in a year is not piracy (which is $0), are you the author of the article?

  • ikt@aussie.zonetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodesEnglish
    71·
    8 days ago

    In 2024, Spotify alone paid out a record $10 billion to the music industry—totaling nearly $60 billion since our founding.

    https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-01-28/on-our-10-billion-milestone-and-a-decade-of-getting-the-world-to-value-music/

    You have to remember that prior to Spotify the music industry was desperate, as people turned to downloading mp3’s illegally the music industry basically just resorted to suing people who potentially downloaded a song.

    I’m also very highly sceptical of this whole article, from the crappy accounting to

    Lidarr is just a tool. Like any tool, it can be misused. Yes, people could point it at less-than-legal sources

    My setup uses sabnzbd integrated with Lidarr for handling downloads of content I’ve purchased

    Riiiiiight.

    You’re just hooked up into a piracy platform that pays artists nothing by coincidence.

    On top of this:

    In 2024, more musicians are making and releasing music than ever before. In fact, a new report has found that more music is released in a single day now than in the entire year of 1989.

    Music simply isn’t a high value product anymore, the market is flooded, there is more music coming out per minute now than you can listen to.

    But it’s all good, I’ll keep paying for Spotify because Spotify pays all the artists I listen to.

  • ikt@aussie.zonetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodesEnglish
    11·
    8 days ago

    Majority of music is in albums, nearly 12,000 different tracks listened to, but most are singles, I rarely listen to albums from start to finish

    I listen to a lot of music in general

    https://aussie.zone/post/19441027/16055498

    Also I figured out you can turn off the payola:

    To opt out of receiving sponsored recommendations, go to your Spotify account on desktop > Account > Privacy settings > turn off Tailored ads.

    This will opt you out of receiving sponsored recommendations and personalized ads generally across our product. If you turn off Tailored ads, you will continue receiving podcast ads in your Premium account, but they will not be tailored to you.

    So even if you broke it down to me just having to buy singles I’m still getting a ridiculous amount of value from Spotify

  • ikt@aussie.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•“ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logsEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Unbeknownst to his loved ones, Adam had been asking ChatGPT for information on suicide since December 2024. At first the chatbot provided crisis resources when prompted for technical help, but the chatbot explained those could be avoided if Adam claimed prompts were for “writing or world-building.”

    From that point forward, Adam relied on the jailbreak as needed, telling ChatGPT he was just “building a character” to get help planning his own death

    Because if he didn’t use the jailbreak it would give him crisis resources

    but even OpenAI admitted that they’re not perfect:

    On Tuesday, OpenAI published a blog, insisting that “if someone expresses suicidal intent, ChatGPT is trained to direct people to seek professional help” and promising that “we’re working closely with 90+ physicians across 30+ countries—psychiatrists, pediatricians, and general practitioners—and we’re convening an advisory group of experts in mental health, youth development, and human-computer interaction to ensure our approach reflects the latest research and best practices.”

    But OpenAI has admitted that its safeguards are less effective the longer a user is engaged with a chatbot. A spokesperson provided Ars with a statement, noting OpenAI is “deeply saddened” by the teen’s passing.

    That said chatgpt or not I suspect he wasn’t on the path to a long life or at least not a happy one:

    Prior to his death on April 11, Adam told ChatGPT that he didn’t want his parents to think they did anything wrong, telling the chatbot that he suspected “there is something chemically wrong with my brain, I’ve been suicidal since I was like 11.”

    I think OpenAI could do better in this case, the safeguards have to be increased but the teen clearly had intent and overrode the basic safety guards that were in place, so when they quote things chatgpt said I try to keep in mind his prompts included that they were for “writing or world-building.”

    Tragic all around :(

    I do wonder how this scenario would play out with any other LLM provider as well