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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours ago

Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group

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Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours ago
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A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.
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    Eww, why scrape that cesspool of AI generated slop?

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      One thing I’ve seen people talking about is the metadata library, which is apparently very good

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        Does it have vector embeddings of all the songs if they did it would be great for building a foss recommendation algorithm

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      Because not all of Spotify is AI slop.

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        Not all. Just a huge chunk.

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          The amount of “AI slop” is an incredibly tiny portion of the metadata.

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      Because before the AI slop there was real content that was only ever released to Spotify.

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