#19 - Bots vs. Pirates and Spotify's Hypocrisy

from The Human Signal — with Laura Sheeran · host Laura Sheeran

In this episode of The Human Signal, I read through the Bots vs Pirates section of my essay Artists, It’s Time to Take Back Your Power [Part 2]I unpack Spotify’s selective outrage over scraping, the weaponisation of language around piracy, and how AI extraction is being tolerated while human interventions are criminalised. This episode is about language, power, and why I would rather my work be pirated than absorbed into an AI training machine. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit laurasheeran.substack.com/subscribe

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