Sony removes 135,000 'deepfakes' of its artists' music Music giant Sony Music says it has requested the removal of more than 135,000 songs by fraudsters impersonating its artists on streaming services. The so-called deepfakes were created using generative AI, and targeted some of the company's biggest acts, who include Beyoncé, Queen and Harry Styles In the worst cases, [the deepfakes] potentially damage a release campaign or tarnish the reputation of an artist, said Dennis Kooker, president of Sony's global digital business. The company says the number of songs generated in this fashion is only increasing as artificial intelligence technology becomes cheaper and easier to access. It believes the 135,000 tracks it has discovered to date represents just a percentage of the total uploaded to streaming services. Since last March alone, it has identified some 60,000 songs falsely purporting to feature artists from their roster.

Fans Call on Taylor Swift to'Do Better' After Accusations of Using AI for Promo Videos A scavenger hunt campaign to promote Taylor Swift's new album, resulted in a viral #SwiftiesAgainstAI campaign. Fans attend a screening of at a theater in Los Angeles. These were just some of the alleged clues that fans spotted in promo videos for Taylor Swift's new album,, this weekend. They were, to their eyes, telltale indicators that the videos were purportedly made with generative AI . "The first sign that it was AI was that it didn't look great," claims Marcela Lobo, a graphic designer in Brazil who has been a Swift fan since she was 12. "It was wonky, the shadows didn't match, the windows and the painted piano, it looked like shit, basically."

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Kaufman made a playlist of all the tracks he could find and gave it a derogatory name. "It's more fun to laugh about it than to feel bad about it," he says. "But it is disconcerting that this can happen." And it was strange to him, as a musician and producer who generally goes "under the radar", to be targeted. "Why not go for someone big?" he asks.

"All the moving images featured in the video are the result of me feeding in a still image and then typing in a'prompt' such as: 'The black & white figure remains still whilst the bus in the background drives off', which led to [a] sequence where the coach weirdly slides towards the cut-out of me," said Cocker. "The weekend I began work on the video was a strange time: I went out of the house and kept expecting weird transformations of the surrounding environment due to the images the computer had been generating. "The experience had marked me. I don't know whether I've recovered yet." After completing the video, the musician said he'd landed firmly on the side of "human intelligence" over AI.

The attention put a rocket under his music career. While his first two albums were DIY affairs, recorded in a couple of days and self-released, his latest, The Crux, was created in New York's fabled Electric Lady studios. Released on Friday, it's packed full of off-kilter lyrics and squiggly synth lines that burrow into your brain. The first two singles, Delete Ya and Basic Being Basic have already been radio hits, and the rest of the album pulls on influences as diverse as Electric Light Orchestra, New Order, Cake, Hall & Oates and Bruce Springsteen (coincidentally, all bands that would work perfectly on the Stranger Things soundtrack). There are a couple of knockouts – including the crunchy garage rock of Gap Toothed Smile, and the choppy New Wave anthem Link – but the point of the album is its diversity.

This paper presents our recent initiatives to foster the discoverability of new releases on the music streaming service Deezer. After introducing our search and recommendation features dedicated to new releases, we outline our shift from editorial to personalized release suggestions using cold start embeddings and contextual bandits. Backed by online experiments, we discuss the advantages of this shift in terms of recommendation quality and exposure of new releases on the service. Note: This short article presents a work that has been accepted for oral presentation as an "Industry Talk" at the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024).

At her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction interview backstage, Sheryl Crow told reporters that AI inspired her to write a song to deal with her fear of the technology. Sheryl Crow found inspiration for her new album from artificial intelligence, though she said the technology left her "terrified." At her induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame earlier this month, Crow said she hadn't intended to do another album, planning instead to just release songs. But then "when the whole AI thing started coming out, particularly with the Beatles thing, and also having witnessed how AI is being used in my art form, I wrote a song about it." She continued, "I was terrified, and where do I go when I'm terrified? I go to my studio," adding, "And I found myself writing just one thing after another, and lo and behold I had 10 songs."

The dance punk band YACHT has always felt like a somewhat techy act since debuting in the early 2000s. They famously recorded instrumental versions of two earlier albums and made them available for artists under a Creative Commons license at the Free Music Archive. Post-Snowden, they wrote a song called "Party at the NSA" and donated proceeds to the EFF. One album cover of theirs could only be accessed via fax initially (sent through a Web app YACHT developed to ID the nearest fax to groups of fans; OfficeMax must've loved it). Singer Claire L. Evans literally wrote the book (Broad Band) on female pioneers of the internet.

The ethos of the band has been to remain experimental and stir a conversation around creativity in the age of machines. With its latest album, Chain Tripping, recorded between the band's home in Los Angeles and Marfa, TX, they've pushed this conversation even further: into AI. Yacht is comprised of Claire L. Evans, Jona Bechtolt, and Rob Kieswetter, and the trio transformed and crafted its working method for Chain Tripping. The result is a 10-song pop album which falls in the intersection of DIY and high-tech. "At a certain point, you need something to push you out of your habits and make you excited, challenged and a little scared again," Evans says.