You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song Quotes

“Music is an exchange of human creativity. AI-generated music is interesting as a philosophical provocation, like a robot that could eat your dinner for you. Don’t reward this. Resist solipsistic technology that tries to sell you your own insular disconnectedness.”
― Glenn McDonald, You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music

“Calling code ‘learning’, when it doesn’t learn, encourages us, as the people both responsible and subject to algorithms, to think and behave as if it does learn.”
― Glenn McDonald, You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music

“This is called A/B testing, and experimenting on people without their knowledge or consent is conceptually immoral, and statistically powerful and so far unregulated, so everybody does it to you.”
― Glenn McDonald, You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music

“You’re not really being surveilled, but that’s not due to teleological humility or ethical judiciousness, it’s just that invasive surveillance doesn’t address any business problem that isn’t at once more easily and more effectively solved by regression to the mean.”
― Glenn McDonald, You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music