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Submission + - AI-generated song tops country music chart (go.com)

Tablizer writes: A song created through artificial intelligence has made history topping a Billboard country music chart, but it has also sent shockwaves through the music industry, with artists getting vocal about the AI-generated hit.

The new country tune, "Walk my Walk" by Breaking Rust, recently hit No. 1 on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart, reaching over 3 million streams on Spotify in less than a month. That success has garnered mixed reactions from music fans and artists alike, particularly on TikTok, where hundreds of users have posted videos addressing the tune and others discussing the music in the comments.

Billboard has acknowledged Breaking Rust is an AI act and said it is one of at least six to chart in the past few months alone. "Ultimately, this feels like an experiment to see just how far something like this can go and what happens in the future and in other disciplines of art as well," senior entertainment reporter Kelley L. Carter told ABC News.

"AI artists won't require things that a real human artist will require, and once companies start considering it and looking at bottom lines, I think that's when artists should rightly be concerned about it," she added. ABC News attempted to reach out to Breaking Rust's creator for comment but did not receive a response.

Comment What about the "clean room" approach? (Score 1) 43

In the clean-room approach, the other party or examiners are required to be strip-searched and to wear simple prison-like clothing as they go into a room without internet connections to examine the info in question? They can take written notes, but all notes are subject to scrutiny before being handed back.

Comment Re:Other developers.... (Score 2) 24

Would the $20 ONN sticks from Walmart work better for you?

I have an puck-style device of theirs which is just an Amtel SoC with GoogleTV Android on it. Probably doesn't get updates but then you don't let them have unfettered access to the Internet either.

I've sideloaded Jellyfin, SmarTube-Next, etc.

I used to have a half dozen Fire sticks and have removed all but one, in a kid's bedroom. They haven't banned Jellyfin ... yet... but aren't they dropping Android as well?

Comment Re:How Big and How Short? (Score 2) 53

It wasn't hard to tell that the emperor in the fable was naked at the equivalent point in the tale either, but it still took that lone voice to pipe up and say so. In the case of sub-prime, the smart people (or at least their smart financial advisors) sat up, paid attention to what Burry was saying and took some mitigating action, everyone else took a bath or, if they had the right contacts and leverage, got a government bailout.

In my mind, AI is just about at that point but is still suffering from a combination of the Greater Fool theory and Dunning-Kruger syndrome. The people backing the AI bros and the bros themselves all know it's a bubble (Sam Altman even flat out said so), but as long as they can keep pulling in money from the pool of Greater Fools to pay the bills, and their Dunning-Kruger leads them to believe they will be the select few that realise it's time to bail right before the bubble pops to maximise their profits and avoid taking the hit, unlike all the other losers, they're going to keep pumping air into it.

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