The AI battle in the music industry
On The Vergecast: a conflict between training data and music’s future, the arrival of phone season, and significant Cybertruck wiper news.
You’ve undoubtedly heard “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey’s holiday song. However, are you familiar with this other song? Additionally known as “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” it has a Mariah Carey-like tone. The lawsuit over how that occurred is going to take a very long time.
In this episode of The Vergecast, Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop assists us as we delve further into the recent lawsuit brought by the RIAA against Udio and Suno, two AI startups. These two businesses are accused of consuming enormous amounts of recorded music in order to train their AI models, infringing on copyrights protected by the music industry. The legal landscape surrounding copyright is complex, legal battles with AI businesses are widespread, and the outcome of all of this is truly unpredictable. However, it is impossible to listen to the AI sing “Jay-son De-RULO” and not be aware of its specific source.
Following that, we discuss the impending phone releases from Google, Samsung, and Motorola and attempt to determine whether any of the AI capabilities we’ll be hearing about will truly persuade us to purchase a new phone. Since this is the summer of the party speaker, we also discuss some very important speaker news.
We conduct a lightning round in the end. We discuss this week’s social media ruling from the Supreme Court, Meta’s most recent venture into the fediverse, Verizon’s eerily eerie new logo, and of course, some huge Cybertruck wiper news.
Here are some websites to get you started if you want to learn more about everything we talk about in this episode, starting with the RIAA lawsuit:
