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AI music is flooding streaming services — but who wants it?

Technology

The Verge•May 3

AI music is flooding streaming services — but who wants it?

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‘It will never cover what’s authentic’: African music industry weighs up AI risks and rewards

World

World news | The Guardian•Apr 29

‘It will never cover what’s authentic’: African music industry weighs up AI risks and rewards

L ast July, the Nigerian singer-songwriter Fave found herself caught up in a viral moment: an unauthorised version of a track featuring an AI choir had been released, quickly becoming an internet sensation. To get ahead of the situation, she recorded her own remix that integrated the AI-assisted song and added it to her discography. “In my view, [that] was smart and very business aware,” Oyinkansola Fawehinmi, a Lagos-based entertainment lawyer, observed a few months later.