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New comment by knose in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

knose — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:08:46 +0000

i recall reading an article in the guardian or some other newspaper about some basically unknown companies that contract musicians to create stock background music for television. what was interesting is that they now create hyper-specialized music and ambience, which is then picked up by spotify for curated playlists. they create basically filler content, and for some reason these genre/mood playlists generate enough revenue from casual listeners so it is a worthwhile niche, and i guess that ai-generated music is the natural progression from that.

edit: it might've been this wikipedia page and some swedish newspaper i had read. i specifically remember Epidemic Sound, as the swedish state television sometimes uses them for stock sound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_fake_artists_...

New comment by knose in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

knose — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:12:54 +0000

i assume the joke is that the three stooges are too stupid to realize that because they all owe each other $20 there is no debt, and they show this by accident by passing a $10 dollar bill around until it ends up back with larry. it says nothing about GDP.

New comment by knose in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

knose — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:10:57 +0000

am i wrong to think that this sketch isn't at all applicable (besides the surface level joke of money being passed around) to the ai bubble or ""modern banking"" as mentioned in the youtube comments? i keep seeing it referenced like it is an explanation of some crazy conspiracy thing, so i don't know if i just don't get it.

New comment by knose in "Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder"

knose — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 07:26:09 +0000

the image of the laptop on the page is AI-generated

New comment by knose in "Cve-rs: Fast memory vulnerabilities, written in safe Rust"

knose — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:19:15 +0000

these people you're talking about would make the same mistake with code written in any language.

New comment by knose in "Three Decades of HTML"

knose — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 19:25:09 +0000

oh wow, this site is _really_ slow on latest firefox. >99% CPU time on graphics according to the profiler, haha.

New comment by knose in "String theory lied to us and now science communication is hard [video]"

knose — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 08:13:06 +0000

conversations over video game footage is the zoomer mode of communication, it is simply Superior