Whether covered under fair use or not, the laws around copyright today did not anticipate this use case. Congress should pass laws that clarify how data is and isn’t allowed to be used in training AI models, how creators should or shouldn’t be compensated, etc - rather than speculating whether this usage technically does or doesn’t comply with the law as-is.
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Can you point me to a current-day independent artist which hasn't been signed to a label that is pulling this amount of money just on streaming?
If you're already big enough that, i.e., XL Recordings can ask you to make a record without getting rights on the master, I wouldn't count it as a good example of "indie artist".
I make about $4,000 per million streams on Spotify for the tracks I’ve released independently. For label releases I make less, but the label promotes them so that sometimes results in more net revenue. I have a bit over 10M Spotify streams over the last 3 years.
Also, Spotify promotes my music via editorial playlists and algorithmic (eg Radio or Discover Weekly), so I’m probably making a lot more total revenue than I would have on iTunes.
raviparikh commented on Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tools in minutes · Posted by u/lredd
YC likes the idea.
They're betting on multiple teams so they have a higher chance of picking the winners.
Not sure if this is what you're implying, but I think it's a mistake to think of YC as a monolithic organization that makes decisions by saying, "idea X is good, we should fund teams doing it."
More likely, each of the teams doing each of these startups interviewed with completely different partners who had no idea of the other startups even existing, and in that interview, they thought the founders seemed solid and had thought through their idea well, and chose to fund it. It's even possible some of the people doing these ideas came up with the idea after they got into YC (i.e. they pivoted) - some of the most successful YC startups were companies that pivoted mid-batch (e.g. Brex).
In general YC doesn't want multiple shots on goal in a specific market area. They want as many shots on goal as possible among great founders in general.
> richest person in the world, Elon Musk, is a climate entrepreneur who got there in part due to climate-driven government subsidies. Just because someone made money off it though does not mean that climate change is a fake concern.
Nobody said this. If the only person arguing the dangers of climate change was Elon Musk, there would be room for reasonable skepticism. That's the difference between the AI debate and "any expert, scientist, or company executive who says 'this stuff could be dangerous'."
And similarly to climate, many people who signed this letter are academics who do not appear to have any financial incentive to push for government regulation.
> Any expert, scientist, or company executive who says "this stuff could be dangerous" can be accused of wanting more attention/grants/investment/etc
No. Climate scientists aren't walking into Congress with a multi-million nest egg behind them, no tangible solutions in front and a playbook of rejecting all specific proposals ahead. That gives them credibility these AI researchers lack.
The richest person in the world, Elon Musk, is a climate entrepreneur who got there in part due to climate-driven government subsidies. Just because someone made money off it though does not mean that climate change is a fake concern.
raviparikh commented on Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tools in minutes · Posted by u/lredd
So retool, windmill.dev, airplane.dev and now this one. All YC backed. Very interesting. I wonder what YC thinks when they fund similar companies in such a short span of time.
EDIT/correction: airplane is not YC backed but one of the founders is YC Alumni
(Airplane founder here) Airplane isn't YC backed. Though interestingly my prior startup, Heap, went through YC and has tons of YC-backed competitors (Amplitude, Mixpanel, Posthog, etc).
Personally I like that YC remains agnostic to the ideas and is willing to back competitors because it ultimately means more great startups get funded. Later-stage investors care more about conflicts because being involved at the level of taking a board seat matters a lot more for conflicts.
At this point they've backed 1000s of companies; if they had to vet that entire list for conflicts to back their next batch it would be incredibly difficult. Also, given the stage they're investing at, tons of companies pivot and end up competing even if they didn't start out that way.