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Fat Tony ☯️ retweeted
Robbie Williams defends Olivia Rodrigo after she was accused of copying his song “Candy” with “take me home (4 christmas)”:
“Artists deserve to be protected. But there’s a difference between protecting your work and treating every vaguely familiar sequence of notes as a winning lottery ticket. It sounds to me as though she may have accidentally stumbled across a musical echo of mine in one of her new songs. And do you know what? I couldn’t care less. I don’t know whether there’s technically a publishing issue, a copyright issue, or no issue whatsoever. And I don’t want to know. I’m not going after her. Because I think at some point, some f**king sanity has to prevail […] We all stand on the shoulders of people who came before us. Sometimes consciously. Sometimes without even knowing it. That’s how music works. If we keep punishing people for accidentally arriving somewhere somebody else has already been, eventually we’re going to frighten the creativity out of everyone.”
tfw only thing i've lit for diwali was a cigarette
#green
happy diwali to those who’ve burned anything from a fuljhadi to a rocket/bomb, may you always be in and out of hospitals for all the worse reasons, may you always face financial troubles, may your insurance never be accepted anywhere and may your emergency funds run dry
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RT @doomslide: A lean certificate has not yet been made public
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Fat Tony ☯️ retweeted
Critical thinking has no space in Hindu society/culture. Probably that's the reason all the insights came when people left the social roles & obligations and went to live in the forest. Indian culture is all about keeping one occupied with rituals & obligations so you never think
Fat Tony ☯️ retweeted
People underestimate how devoid of critical thinking india was before british. Indians were natural born goy cattles. A British official who spent 30 years in india wrote that indians were highly superstitious and believed in all sorts of bullshit. The more improbable and absurd
Fat Tony ☯️ retweeted
Indians are undoubtedly among the dumbest people on the planet. The intellectual hubris, the self-sabotaging instincts, the breathtaking disregard for facts… stuns the mind. I mean if a society invokes mythology to justify pumping LITERAL carcinogens into the air, then passes off its own idiocy for cultural pride, probably deserves to choke on the fumes of its own arrogance. Gazab paagalpan hai.
Fat Tony ☯️ retweeted
I'm a couples therapist. I've seen a lot of crazy stuff over the years, but the worst always has to be the WMAF couples. It's always the two most dysgenic people you've ever seen in your life, and more often than not, they are in therapy for something totally unhinged, like the wife wanting to "open the marriage" to some random black guy she's been secretly fucking on the side, or another couple who was convinced their son would be a school shooter. I have never had a WMAF couple come in who were normal. The only upside is I can charge them basically almost anything and they always pay on time.
3 times i saw people use the acronym 'AES' for abdul el sayed and thought they were talking about Advanced Encryption Standard
Folks, not every famous person with 3 names needs an acronym. Just say el sayed and ocasio-cortez so i dont have to think abt AES or Age Of Conquerors
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Fat Tony ☯️ retweeted
I tell my students to instinctively distrust any "emergence" claims about LLMs (and read "emergence" as "training"). We don't need magical phrasing to appreciate the usefulness of these mega-trained models.. – at Holden Heights, FL
Fat Tony ☯️ retweeted
Artificial intelligence (AI) is based on a very flawed assumption that there exists a fixed ground truth probability distribution all processes follow which can be recovered from lots of training data tiling that problem space.
Intelligence assumes reality is dynamic.
Fat Tony ☯️ retweeted
> EAs don’t have memetic defenses against conflating “do the most good” with “gain the most power”
I hate this way of talking and thinking, they're not victims of some twee mind virus, they're a very familiar type of sociopath throughout history
Slopify
Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”
Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵
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