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The year is 2025. Self-driving cars are (mostly) avoiding pedestrians, and we’re all arguing about the ethics of sentient toasters. But a new, slightly more terrifying problem has emerged: AI-generated Celine Dion. Yes, you read that right. Team Dion recently released a statement cautioning fans about unauthorized, AI-generated music circulating online, falsely attributed to…
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Let’s face it, most of us hum in the shower. Some even attempt to play instruments (badly). But creating actual, listenable music? That’s usually left to the professionals. Or, at least, was. Enter the age of AI music generators, promising symphonies from simple text prompts. Are they the future of music, or just another…
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The robots are coming for your playlists. And maybe even writing them. Artificial intelligence, once the stuff of sci-fi nightmares (or, you know, Her), is now composing symphonies, crafting catchy jingles, and generally making noise in the music industry. But is it music? Or just…math with a beat? The Algorithmic Ascent The idea of…
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So, the robots were supposed to steal our jobs, our creativity, and apparently, our Bandcamp carts. Except, according to Bandcamp themselves, the robot uprising in the independent music scene is… delayed. Or maybe it’s just really, really subtle. Forbes recently interviewed Bandcamp’s editorial director, J. Edward Keyes, and general manager, Dan Melnick, and the…
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The robots may be able to compose, but they can’t collect royalties. In a landmark decision, the U.S. Federal Appeals Court affirmed that music (and other content, for that matter) created solely by artificial intelligence is ineligible for copyright protection. Think of it as a legal firewall against the impending AI singularity…at least in…
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Okay, let’s be honest: When AI started composing symphonies, I choked on my kombucha. Another nail in the coffin of human creativity, right? Wrong. Turns out, the robots aren’t coming for our gigs… yet. They’re offering a (slightly glitchy) hand. The music AI landscape is a battlefield of opinions. You’ve got your Suno disciples,…
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The AI copyright battlefield is heating up, and the first skirmishes are providing some intriguing results. In the latest development, Anthropic, the AI company behind the chatbot Claude, managed to fend off a preliminary injunction sought by Universal Music Group (UMG) and other music publishers. The publishers, understandably agitated about the potential unauthorized use…
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Remember when everyone thought NFTs would revolutionize art? Yeah, about that… Now, meet HAiO, the platform promising to do the same for music. Their angle? AI-generated music combined with the oh-so-trendy blockchain. Because apparently, the only thing missing from your life is a decentralized, algorithmically-composed opera. Launched in November 2024, HAiO boasts over 95,000…
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The world of indie game development isn’t usually known for its high-stakes drama. But sometimes, even a simple card game can ignite a digital dumpster fire. This time, the fuel? Artificial Intelligence. Or, more specifically, the ‘art’ it churns out. Buckle up, because this is a saga of subreddit squabbles, rogue moderators, and a…
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The art world, bless its bewildering heart, is at it again. This time, the culprit isn’t a urinal signed by a pseudonym, but algorithms churning out ‘art’ at a rate that would make Warhol blush. And, predictably, it’s both generating eye-watering sums of money and triggering existential dread among actual artists. Christie’s, the auction…