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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
With bands like The Velvet Sundown and Trilok gaining traction, artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool in music creation. It is shaping how streaming platforms, artists and listeners approach music.
What if a song you were listening to on Spotify wasn’t actually performed by real people? Absurd as it might sound, this is exactly what unfolded recently.
Sometime in June, The Velvet Sundown, a rock-inspired alternative band, emerged out of nowhere and stormed the music streaming landscape. Within a month, they earned more than 1 million monthly listeners and twice as many streams on Spotify. To everyone’s surprise, though, they were soon revealed to be entirely generated by artificial intelligence—from the tunes to the lyrics to the “band’s” persona. “Not quite human. Not quite machine” but living “somewhere in between”, …
Countries across the world are coming to the consensus that children aged under 15 must not have access to social media. India, which has over 300 million children under 15 and among the cheapest data tariffs, needs to have this conversation sooner rather than later.
The proprietary trading firm’s guilt is as obvious as its innocence, depending on who you ask. However, the truth often lies in the grey areas. Many answers are needed from both Jane Street and SEBI.
Copyright protection is a negative right. Nobody can copy your work without getting your permission. If OpenAI did not get Studio Ghibli’s nod to train its LLM on the studio’s original, hand-drawn artwork style, we need to ask whether it is copyright infringement.
