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A complex character but this piece of writing from 1993 changed how I saw the world and shaped my philosophy around extractive systems based on exploitation, power dynamics and the siren song of desire
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
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Study: The CCP’s Digital Charm Offensive: How TikTok’s Search Algorithm and Pro-China Influence Networks Indoctrinate GenZ Users in the United States
musictechpolicy.comNo such thing as a free lunch - also - don’t build on one platform alone
Online music is both incredibly localized and universal, simultaneously confined to small Discord clubs and capable of being transmitted through electric signals to vibrate speakers around the globe.
No Bells • Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
Hell yes it is
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.