The music industry’s AI fight

Surely, you’ve heard Mariah Carey’s vacation smash hit, “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” But person you heard astir this different song? It’s besides called “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” and uh, it sounds a batch similar Mariah Carey. We’re astir to walk a agelong clip litigating however that happened.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, with the assistance of Switched connected Pop’s Charlie Harding, we excavation heavy into the caller suit filed by the RIAA against 2 AI companies, Udio and Suno. Those 2 companies are alleged to person violated euphony manufacture copyrights by ingesting immense quantities of recorded songs successful bid to bid their AI models. Copyright instrumentality is complicated, these fights against AI companies are everywhere, and there’s truly nary telling however this is each going to go. But there’s truly nary mode to perceive the AI sing “Jay-son De-RULO” and not cognize precisely wherever it came from.

After that, we speech astir the upcoming telephone releases from Samsung, Google, and Motorola and effort to fig retired if immoderate of the AI features we’ll perceive astir volition really person america to bargain a caller phone. We besides speech astir immoderate big-deal talker news, due to the fact that this is the summertime of the party speaker.

If you privation to cognize much astir everything we sermon successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening with the RIAA lawsuit:

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