I don’t think people realize how much of this music stuff is just throwing things at a wall and seeing what sticks, even when money is involved.

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What does A&R stand for... algorithms and reposts?

I’ve resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI, because I don’t agree with the company’s opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is ‘fair use’. First off, I want to say that there are lots of people at Stability who are deeply

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Synthetic data is often generated using models that were themselves trained on unlicensed, copyrighted work. Synthetic data is only a solution if the original training data used to create it was licensed. If not, using synthetic data is just data laundering.

1) amanda rose - A&R, Def Jam "My biggest takeaway from this year when it comes to finding and developing acts, is I would like to believe more of the industry is waking up to actually finding talent instead of looking at the numbers.

Songwriters are feeling effects from the UMG TikTok ban: - songwriters (when a UMPG talent is involved) are being asked by nonUMG artists to not submit pub splits upon release - UMPG writers are being excluded from camps + sessions Read more: billboard.com/business/tech/…

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It’s good to see generative AI companies moving towards licensing the training data they use. But it’s important that they license all their data, not just content from the big players who are most likely to sue them if they don’t.

Does anyone know if there is any way to turn off AI or AI-related content on Spotify? I can’t listen to my discover weekly anymore because the amount of music it shows me with AI vocals drives me up the wall.

Genuine question for Washed Out and Sub Pop Records records: how do you think about the possibility Sora was trained on copyrighted videos without consent? If this doesn’t concern you, is this a tacit acknowledgement that generative AI models can be trained on your music without your

I’ve been approached by generative AI founders who want to train models responsibly (i.e. without scraping), but who are being told by potential investors that this will mean they will fall behind companies that aren’t bothering to be ethical, so they won’t invest. This is

Spotify has launched a major assault on songwriters. Again. Remember last time when we won an overdue rate increase and Spotify did everything in its power to try to deny songwriters that victory? We fought and we won. It’s time to fight again.

All these GenAI companies avoiding the direct answer to the questions of what was your model trained on are cowards. In back rooms they hide behind the notion of fair use, but in public lie or avoid the question. It’s despicable.

1/15: In April, I resigned from OpenAI after losing confidence that the company would behave responsibly in its attempt to build artificial general intelligence — “AI systems that are generally smarter than humans.” openai.com/index/planning…

Fin sommerpludder med selveste Bugge Wesseltoft i siste episode av The Music Manager open.spotify.com/episode/2tuzz7…