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AI Music, Stolen Songs, and the Problem Nobody Seems to Be Solving
AI companies have been accused of training music-generation models on copyrighted songs without permission. Lawsuits followed. Licensing deals emerged. The debate became about copyright and compensation. While investigating the issue, I found myself asking a different question:
How did the music actually get into the training system?
That question led me into datasets, metadata, YouTube links, and an under explored part of the public discussion—the pipeline between publicly available music and AI model training.
In this episode, I explore why datasets are not the same as audio collections and…
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