Cool beans!! Reminds me a bit of The Hu. Ever check them out?

"The only people actually paying to use this are folks gaming streaming platforms, and for background music in ads (which is a trend that really needs to die)."

That's a pretty big generalization. I've been writing songs and recording original music since the late '80s. I've had a lot of fun playing around with Suno feeding it old demos to play around with new arrangements or feeding it new recordings of just voice and guitar (or even just voice). I know other musicians doing the same. I haven't released anything generated by Suno (heck, after all these years, I've actually only ever released an E.P. of original (completely non-AI) music I recorded with my daughter), but I've got some hybrid works in progress, where I've downloaded stems of several different Suno renders, imported them into my DAW (Cubase), picked and chosen the elements I like the best, and recorded my own vocals over them.

On the Suno groups on Facebook, I've seen people claiming that lots of musi industry folks are using Suno for rapid demo-ing and then going back and replacing the instruments. There's a service called Musiversal which has a stable of human musicians who work remotely who have even been marketing themselves as a way to re-record AI tracks.

Funny!! But maybe they're Deadheads and "Ripple" is their favorite song.

Ha ha ha ha!! That's rich. Thanks for introducing me to that law. :)

Crap! Wasn't signed-in again.

Dang! Wasn't signed in, so I don't get credit for this (my first comment it quite a while).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Pretty sure Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia University, not "Colombia" university. "Columbia" is the personification of the New World, while "Colombia" is a country in South America.

No doubt many files loaded on iPods were pirated, but many were also from CDs ripped by their owners. Back then, people actually bought CDs.

Soundtrack to "The Social Network" film.

...and I'll add: while I'm concerned, I still use a cell phone and have wi-fi at home, so I must not be *that* concerned. I do try to be sensible, however, about placement of wi-fi base stations so they're not right next to beds, for instance.

Thanks for raising these concerns.

Despite having studied physics (inverse-square law) and electrical engineering (though I wasn't the best student), I am concerned by how readily and glibly folks dismiss concerns about possible health effects of EMFs. The fact is, there's a lot we don't know about our own biology, and heating effects and ionizing radiation aren't necessarily the only possible modes by which EMFs could harm us.

This documentary, while suffering from some poor production values, presents the hypothesis of some researchers (whose CVs I have not examined) that round-the-clock EMF exposure reduces the body's natural production of melatonin, a potent anti-oxidant and regulatory hormone, since the body doesn't distinguish between visible light and RF radiation. This reduced melatonin production allegedly can lead to a reduction in the body's ability to fight cancer growth.

Time will tell but, as you say, we're performing a large-scale experiment on ourselves.

Congratulations to my college classmate, Rebecca Oppenheimer, co-author of the paper, and researcher at the American Museum of Natural History. Here's the AMNH announcement:
http://www.amnh.org/explore/ne...

I know it's very mundane, but hopefully, it'll save her some unnecessary grief down the road.