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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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[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

WTF, Paul McCartney want's to pay him royalty's for the silence?

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 hours ago

Yes exactly, Paul McCartney want is to pay him royalty is for the silence, as a form of protest against Spotify paying out "AI artists".

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago)

Worked for Simon & Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence - so well that Disturbed covered it about a decade ago.