Music Streaming Is Broken

This video provides a summary of the issues and scams prevalent in the music streaming industry, particularly for independent artists. The Problem with Bots: The video explains how bots are used to inflate stream counts, which dilutes the earnings for legitimate artists in a communal fund system. It also shows how bots can be used Read More …

Poison-Pill Music Files

This video discusses how musicians can combat generative AI by using adversarial noise, a type of encoding that makes music files untrainable and can degrade the quality of AI datasets. The Problem with Generative AI: The video highlights the issue of tech companies scraping copyrighted data from platforms like Spotify and YouTube without consent, leading Read More …

All you didn’t know about the Music Business

Many people don’t realize that pop songs are often not written by the performing artists themselves, but by a team of professional songwriters, producers, and management. Professional Songwriters: The song “Manchild” was written by Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff. The host shows that both are prolific songwriters who have written numerous hit songs for major Read More …

What is an omni model in AI

An omni model in AI, often seen in models like GPT-4o, refers to a unified, end-to-end multimodal architecture capable of processing and generating information across text, audio, vision, and other data types simultaneously, unlike previous models that combined separate specialized components. This integrated approach allows for lower latency, naturalistic conversation, and complex tasks like understanding Read More …

Security leaks for sale

There is new gold to be found on the internet, and possibly in your own computer. Secret backdoors, that do not have a digital lock yet, are being traded at astronomical amounts. In the cyber world trade, where there are no rules, you are in luck with “white-hat” hackers, who guard your online security. But Read More …