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@matdryhurst refreshing to read a human written break down of things like these, thank you

People are missing critical nuances to understand this. Classic case of AI surfacing existing problems. 1) It's heinous what this "Timeless Sounds IR" scam company is doing to this artist 2) AI tools make this kind of scam easier now (they make everything easier!), but this is not a new problem 3) It is notable that the songs in question are *public domain songs* - "Four Marys" "Darling Corey" "In the Pines" are not written by this artist, and that is why the scam works 4) ContentID fraud has been well documented for a decade, usually focussed on classical music, public domain songs for this reason 5) Similarly why in the hell are there not yet protections in place for an artist on streaming to be able to manually approve songs distributed in their name - not an AI thing! 6) The story put forward is that "AI is stealing from artists" but it's more accurate to say that copyright infrastructure is often used to scam artists, and AI makes this fraud easier (it makes everything easier!) 7) An assumption I'm seeing is that stricter copyright enforcement might help alleviate this problem. Stricter copyright enforcement may make this scam more powerful. This is a story of needing stronger verification. We have a talented person playing traditional songs free to anyone, being the subject of a scam enabled by copyright and AI tools, which doesn't lead to clean conclusions on AI and copyright. The impersonation issue is separate. They were making copyright claims by someone called "Murphy Rider", a slight deviation from the initial artists name of "Murphy Campbell", and also apparently posting songs in her real name to streaming (baffling that is still possible). The latter is the most clear cut infringement, not of copyright, but of personality rights - which are still the best defense to pursue in case someone is using your name and likeness to commercially release AI related work. Worth noting whatever transpires with pre-training data for AI models, personality rights will always apply. It will always be illegal to profit from falsely using someones name.

@nickfloats @fumblemike Yes sir!!!!

@fumblemike If I need to be the loud annoying one in the room for a week to make some change occur, so be it. There are many thousands of people who I know feel the same way, but might not be as comfortable speaking up. I’m shouting for them too. You can’t just lie & scam & get away with it.

I’m tired.

@tokyomegaplex This is the first video I watched in 2026 oh my god you legend

@ednewtonrex 🫡🫡🫡🫡

The Warner / Suno settlement is a very good day for musicians, and for people everywhere fighting against exploitative AI. More details on the agreement are needed, but the bottom line is this: Suno is shifting to models trained on music they've licensed, and shutting down their old, unlicensed ones. This is a huge win. Does it suck that a company that trained on "essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open internet" - without payment or permission - is rewarded with a major label deal? Of course it does. But you've got to remember - this was a fight about training data. Suno said they could train on musicians' work without permission - the record labels said they had to license it. And Suno is now going to license it. That alone is a huge win. And remember - it was only thanks to this lawsuit that Suno admitted what they trained on in the first place. Before the lawsuit, they were asked several times about their training data, and prevaricated every time. It was only thanks to this lawsuit that they ended up admitting that their models were trained on musicians' work without permission. So the lawsuit has led to them admitting what they trained on, *and* licensing the music in question. That is a great outcome, and shows the importance of AI copyright lawsuits in the fight against the exploitation of creatives by AI companies. Yes, we should be wary of celebrating too much when, of course, Suno trained on lots of music that Warner doesn't own, and that is therefore not covered by this settlement. But they have not settled with the other major labels yet, and they are being sued by others, too - for instance, in two class action lawsuits brought by independent musicians. This settlement doesn't get them off the hook. What it *does* do is continue the gradual shift away from a wild west approach in which AI companies use whatever creative content they want, irrespective of copyright, and towards a world in which AI companies pay for their training data. So when AI boosters tell you that it's too late to do anything about the exploitation at the heart of generative AI - when they tell you Pandora's box is open - point them to this settlement. When they tell you AI companies will never have to get opt-in consent - point them to this settlement, which says otherwise. There is still lots of work to be done in the cause of trying to get fairness for creatives in the age of AI. Licensing training data isn't everything - we also need to protect creatives' work, label AI outputs, avoid slop polluting the internet, and much more besides. But this is a great step. We are winning. The fight is worth it. Keep fighting.

@angelofuture yeah, i'm betting that there's people within Spotify's curation process that are curious on how AI music will compete with real artists, they're already paying artists the bare minimum for streams...

@jakbannon I wonder how many of the streams from that r&b song derive from spotify playlisting, because I think that's really the problem (spotify divorces music from its context or communities, meaning AI music can blend in easily)

AI-generated music being received positively by joe rogan is actually a great signal that it isn't going to work

@angelofuture billboard.com/music/chart-be… I truly think that theres like 60% of people out there that don't care how its made or why or by who but if it "slaps" to them they'll listen to it

@jakbannon he's all about niche/fringe gimmicks that sound interesting to people for 10 minutes, but never see engagement beyond that millions of people hear about hunting elk or aliens building the pyramids but I see no mass adoption

@drivelinekyle @DrivelineBB @AndrewAydt @Tstokey intro logo graphic going hard fr

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a fair reaction, really

animatic of the trailer I directed for Netflix France :) I'll attach the full video below!

@drivelinekyle fuckin congrats kyle!!!!

The end of the beginning. One hell of an organization to work for with leadership to believe in. On to the playoffs…

BTS Animatic of our last film with Micheal B Jordan and Kai Cenat

@nickfloats dawg

@nickfloats wow, amazing man

@jakbannon Got a couple good rack focus shots! “Focus in on {element}” usually does a pretty good job. Adding —raw to the job sometimes helps too

Cozy motion moodboard made in Midjourney Tracking costs, I ran 115 video jobs, which generated 460 different 5 second clips, or 2300 seconds of footage in total. All together that's over 38 minutes of video generated in under an hour for about $23 in compute. Not too shabby

@midjourney what if you guys created a sort of “prompt compress” feature where it groups the prompt- image/style references together for easy sending to other team members?

@nickfloats oh my god oh my god oh my god

Midjourney video model is verrry close to release If you want to take a look at some of the early outputs and help rank videos to make the model better link below

@nickfloats clicks too important !

It’s posts from dollar store AI influencers like this that make people hate AI Use your brain

@drivelinekyle fuck yes