Itâs so sweet the way the car keeps guessing where I want to go. âHome? Are we going home now? Weâve been away for ages!â
Ben Cooper
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Thi sun shines a teeny bit strongir evry day, & tho itil b a long time b4 nybody can c it wif thi naykid I, the starz 1/2 moovd.
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Book show on Radio 4: âArenât those techbros funny, they base things on sci-fi but donât realise theyâre dystopiasâ!
Guests chuckle knowingly.
Except Musk names things after Iain M Banks Culture novels, which are utopias not dystopias.
Guests chuckle knowingly.
Except Musk names things after Iain M Banks Culture novels, which are utopias not dystopias.
Just saw an advert for âslim stretch fit cargo trousersâ and no. Just no.
So, yes - I thought he was an idiot for a long time, and although his sexual offences came as no surprise, I also thought he was just a standard misogynistic bloke.
There are so many man like him that I guess we donât expect them to be criminal, just arseholes. The horrible thought is that probably a lot more of them are criminal too.
There are so many man like him that I guess we donât expect them to be criminal, just arseholes. The horrible thought is that probably a lot more of them are criminal too.
I was thinking Russell Brand was an idiot long before it became fashionable.View quoted post on X
The âversion of my favorite song that only exists in my headâ is the one the artist created, because theyâre better at creating music than I am. Every original artist is better than every one of those 640 million AI-assisted slop generators.
Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.View quoted post on X
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artistâs song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artistâs voice performs another artistâs song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. Theyâll appear in playlists. Theyâll count toward the original songâs chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the worldâs largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4â$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7â8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artistsâ permission, on the worldâs largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst whoâs covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
âSpotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isnât whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.â
Hereâs what Spotifyâs AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself đ§ľ
