Something Beyonce said years ago that always stuck with me, especially as I prepare to release my first book professionally.
“When you release art into the world, it doesn’t belong to you anymore.”
And that is a terrifying vulnerability to work SO hard on something & have it evaluated by false metrics and against systems you have no control over. I feel for her in that regard.
Fan fact? he’s my guy and yeah 2018/2019 he was already doing fine to an extent but bro was still out here doing more free production than paid gigs, even after NOBODY by Joeboy dropped (yeah he produced that too) he was still steady doing shit for niggas for free! His love for the art is what got him here.
He deserves every single thing he’s getting today!
@musicaddict1097 Almost 90k streams in the space of 5 days for an independent new artist without any label promotion and playlisting and y'all are already writing think pieces talmabout it's not making waves? Àní orí yín ti ń burú bí eégún tí ń lé wèrè sẹ́ẹ̀.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.