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“Smart” suggestions don’t hit like a friend’s rec or the music blogs of years past.
Bandcamp Bets on Curation, Anthropic Pays Up, and New Music You Need
Dubstep Allstars Vol. 1 (mixed by Hatcha)
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Web3 Music in 2025: Mapped
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A recent Senate policy brief warned that AI models could cut musicians’ incomes by as much as 25 percent within four years, as training sets devour the fruits of their labor without any licensing payments or bargaining leverage.
✘ Populists vs. Tech Titans: The Battle Over AI and the Future of Music
For these communities, hearing a generative model spit out a synthetic gospel track or an AI-generated country twang is not just an artistic affront, it can feel like outright blasphemy, proof that tech elites would rather manufacture culture than nurture it.
✘ Populists vs. Tech Titans: The Battle Over AI and the Future of Music
But labels and rights-holders see the same tools as built on an enormous act of industrial-scale theft. Decades of copyrighted recordings, the fruits of 100 years of human artistry, have been scrapped and repurposed as training data without so much as a licensing check or a royalty paid.
✘ Populists vs. Tech Titans: The Battle Over AI and the Future of Music
Music tech in 2025: What investors really think
waterandmusic.comCautious optimism? Lets hope so
