Indie Veterans Deerhoof Remove Catalog From Spotify Over Daniel Ek’s Investment in AI Company Creating Military Tech

Deerhoof Are ‘Quitting Spotify’ Over CEO Investing in ‘AI Battle Tech’ Company

Deerhoof announced they are leaving Spotify after its CEO, Daniel Ek, invested nearly $700 million in defense company Helsing, which makes military drones and AI defense software. “We don’t want our music killing people,” the band said in a statement, explaining why they’re planning on taking all of their music off the streaming platform. “We don’t want our success being tied to AI battle tech.” Spotify did not immediately respond to Rolling S…

Indie Veterans Deerhoof Remove Catalog From Spotify Over Daniel Ek’s Investment in AI Company Creating Military Tech

Veteran indie band Deerhoof has announced that the band is “tendering their resignation from Spotify,” removing their entire music catalog from that streaming service not because of the low royalties paid by all music-streaming platforms, but because of co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek leading a $700 million investment round in the European defense technology company Helsing, which specializes in AI defense software but also builds drones and softwa…

Deerhoof to Remove Music From Spotify

The long-running indie-rock band is protesting chief executive Daniel Ek’s military investments and also said the company “is flushing itself down the toilet”

Deerhoof Pulls Music from Spotify Due to Daniel Ek's Involvement with AI Weapons Company

Deerhoof is pulling its entire catalog from Spotify in response to media reports that the streaming platform’s CEO, Daniel Ek, serves as chairman of a German company specializing in AI military software.