Punk rocker Jenny Toomey takes stand against AI music
by Boing Boing
Boing Boing— The long-held promise of Artificial Intelligence was that machines would do all the drudge work and we would be left to create. In this AI-enabled utopia, assembly, construction, and hard labor of all kinds, as well as boring sorting and filing and such, would be handled by smart machines while we painted pictures, wrote poems, and sang songs together. — Read the rest
Music Business Worldwide—The risks of AI to music streaming services… according to Tencent Music Entertainment. TME is one of the most enthusiastic adopters of AI among music streaming companies, but it sees plenty of unknowns in the technology Source
Boing Boing—France takes a stand against shrinkflation. Companies use shrinkflation to increase profits by reducing product size without raising prices. Most people will notice a change in price, but will often miss a change in size, especially when the change is concealed by the outside packaging. Even matzoh for Passover was shrunk this year. — Read the rest
@MichaelWestBiz—Pauline Hanson to take stand in hate speech lawsuit. Pauline Hanson will step into the witness box and explain to a court why a tweet telling a female Muslim senator to pack her bags and go back to Pakistan was not racist. The federal One Nation leader is facing allegations of racial discrimination in the Federal Court by NSW Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi. In […]