Deerhoof has made a notable decision to withdraw their entire catalog from Spotify, expressing ethical concerns regarding the platform’s CEO, Daniel Ek, who is involved with Helsing, a company that develops military AI software. In their statement, the band highlighted the moral implications of their music potentially being used for harmful purposes and acknowledged the challenges other artists face with their reliance on Spotify as a revenue source. They criticized Spotify's model, calling it a 'data-mining scam' and questioned the supposed benefits of increased discoverability through the platform.
We don't want our music killing people. We don't want our success being tied to AI battle tech,
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