AI Could Enable a Golden Age of Audio Piracy; The Future of Music Curators
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AI could enable a golden age of audio piracy
Everyone knows the story: In the early 2000s, peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing platforms like Napster, Kazaa, and LimeWire helped digital music piracy proliferate, ultimately decimating recorded music revenue for years. Almost a decade later, a similar, though not quite as dramatic, fate befell book publishing.
What the digital streaming revolution can teach us about the AI
As a musician, Jenny Toomey witnessed an extreme contrast between the digital music industry’s rosy promises and a disappointing reality. Now, she fears the AI revolution could lead to a similar fate for workers.
The Future of Music Curators
The role of music curators has undergone a notable change in recent years thanks to the evolving music industry. With the start of streaming platforms—such as Spotify and Apple Music—playlists have become a vital tool for artist growth.
Spotify Algorithm: The Ultimate Music Discovery Machine
It’s no secret that music streaming services are one of the main ways people discover music nowadays. Sure, you can spend your weekends crate digging at your local record store, or checking out music blog recommendations. But with the click of a button, music streaming services – from Spotify to Amazon Music – can tailor your music recommendations to a tee.
Fixing AI's Market Failure
Given the vast quantity of content available on the internet, however, no single source or archive is so essential to the efficiency of a model that not having it for training would be a showstopper. Nor is it generally possible, given the complexity of the computational processes involved in training, to attribute the output of a model to all the possible sources that went into it.
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