Daniel Ek is in a unique position to invest in the community of musicians he pretends to champion. Instead, he just led a €600M funding round into AI military drone company Helsing.

My latest essay explores happens when people who don’t actually care about music are the ones who decide how it gets listened to.

Daniel Ek is in a unique position to invest in the community of musicians he pretends to champion. Instead, he just led a €600M funding round into AI military drone company Helsing.

My latest essay explores happens when people who don’t actually care about music are the ones who decide how it gets listened to.

https://terrraincognita.substack.com/p/the-algorithmic-culture-collapse

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Daniel Ek could totally uplift musicians but wow he’s funding military drones instead which is kinda wild and disappointing