Latest / Upsample with Carson Tworow & Will Chernoff
This Can't Be Cake
(0:00) Will has a camera!
(3:07) "'A Billion Streams and No Fans': Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case", by Kate Knibbs of WIRED
(17:24) Spotify tracks on the wrong artist profiles
(37:59) What happens when the AI-gen floodgates burst?
(44:27) Is Will being too naive about AI videos?
(52:52) Recommendations
We reference Search Engine's podcast episode "The Russian Cake Switcheroo" and the Anthony Fantano video "Massive Problem on Spotify" . The music project from the WIRED story is here.
Recs: Carson - setting up your own music server at home, Will - Dialectic podcast hosted by Jackson…
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