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Generative AI and Copyright, When AI Hits the Music Business, The Social Media that Comes After Twitter

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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The Future of Music

The internet has already made it much harder for artists to become like real superstars. There's a lower barrier to entry, but there's also a lower ceiling on how popular most new artists can get because the market has just been flooded in the Spotify era. The solution is to switch to authentication, to instead of trying to stamp out everything that's not real, you ascertain what is real. Once we get local model with local models, it effectively is zero marginal costs. So there's going to be an infinite amount of garbage. We lean into AI to help us solve this problem.

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