Spotify’s layoffs put an end to a musical encyclopedia, and fans are pissed

On a brutal December day, 17% of Spotify employees found out they had been laid off in the company’s third round of job cuts last year. Not long after, music fans around the world realized that the cult-favorite website Every Noise at Once (EveryNoise), an encyclopedic goldmine for music discovery, had stopped working. These two […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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We should all be watching carefully what is happening to genuine huma produced content. The tech-bro corporate dystopia we find ourselves in hit the creatives hard, and it continues to destroy truly human work in favor of hard algorithms and the “promise of AI” wether we like it or not.