A clip of a song by Ghostwriter 977 was uploaded to Spotify. It got hundreds of thousands of listens on Spotify before being pulled off. There is speculation that maybe Drake or his label were behind this. We still don't know who Ghostwriter is, so if you're out there, call us up.
A song featuring A.I.-generated versions of Drake and the Weeknd went viral — before being taken down by streaming services. Is censorship of A.I.-generated songs the way forward? Or can singers benefit from synthetic voices, as some artists like Grimes are suggesting?
Then, HatGPT: Kevin and Casey pull headlines out of a hat and generate their own takes on the news.
And Ben Smith, the former BuzzFeed News editor, discusses the end of the 2010s digital media era.
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Ben Smith is a journalist and co-founder of the digital media company Semafor. He was a New York Times media columnist and the first editor in chief of BuzzFeed News.