They didn’t drop the ice ads, the contract expired.
Fuck Spotify.
If they don’t renew the contract even if the govt wants to, give them a little credit for that. I don’t know if that’s the case but it sounds like a reasonable reversal to taking the contract in the first place.
Not a spotify customer but can you provide proof of this?
“Yes, there are currently no ICE ads running on Spotify,” the spokesperson tells Rolling Stone. “The advertisements mentioned were part of a U.S. government recruitment campaign that ran across all major media and platforms. The campaign ended on most platforms and channels, including Spotify, at the end of last year.”
Literally, the US government decided to stop running the ad campaign.
They will raise prices to cover the loss of revenue. It’s always a win win for companies because they are free of regulation at this point.
I mean the ceo is still doing ai military nonsense isnt he? This doesn’t really change my view on spotify
Why is this an argument if you’re not Russian? Why are people losing their shit over Europe making AI drones (and sending many to Ukraine) and then some European companies joining the fundraising for it? What the fuck is your problem with this, Americans?
Stop listening to propaganda and understand that this IS a good thing. They’re not sponsoring Israel or any other shitty nation, Europe needs to start producing their own weapons and it’s a good thing Europeans are finally doing it. What’s shitty is that suddenly Americans feel like boycotting Swedish company because we want to be able to defend ourselves. Go drink more Trump’s/Putin’s kool-aid
Fuck AI, and especially fuck the militarization of AI. That’s why.
It’s not LLM my dude, chill. AI systems have been in use for military (especially US) for a long time
EDIT: I say this in full seriousness: Sometimes I feel like Lemmy is catastrophically bad in important decision-making. Worse than reddit in fact. This place sometimes remind me if those hippie communities where logic is thrown out of window and everyone preaches happiness and rainbows.
Reality is that some of us live in constant threat of getting attacked/invaded and I could not care less about your opinion towards AI. Not many get the privilege of choosing and protesting. I sometimes wonder if you people deeply want countries like Russia, Israel and China winning because your arguments perfectly play in their hands. “just don’t even think about defending yourselves or I will boycott you with my wallet” go fuck yourselves
Ah yes,the US military. Famous for being a beacon of morality a shining light for all of us to follow. What could go wrong?
You’re missing my point. Not using AI in modern times would be like fighting western weapons with Soviet era weapons. Do you honestly believe EU will use them for malicious purposes?
Spotify is still giving tons of money to Joe Rogan. Until they fix that they deserve to be boycotted. Also the headline is misleading because the contract simply expired.
They’be been producing fake music for years. Actual humans recorded music that was uploaded under the name of multiple artist to fool you.
Too little, too late. I’m already out.
