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Paul McCartney joins music industry protest against AI with silent track (www.theguardian.com)
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Former Beatle and artists including Sam Fender, Kate Bush and Hans Zimmer record silent LP Is This What We Want

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[+] -7 points 11 months ago (8 children)

How much do they need, though?

You people never factor this in. It's always an on-off switch in your minds.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    consider this. most musicians don't have [n]early as much money as Paul McCartney. Even Paul McCartney didn't have much money when he was starting out in the 60s.

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  • [+] -8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, and they still make music.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Look into the future. They're not just protecting themselves. They are protesting in protection of all music artists.

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  • [+] -10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    So an extremely small percentage of them can have excessive wealth like paul?

    Hard pass.

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