a 1950s music studio. a humanoid robot is mixing a recording –ar 5:3 –v 6.0 –style raw

“Spotify’s AI ambitions are expanding to playlists, which are launching in beta and let you use text prompts to build custom playlists, which you can then iterate upon. Get the full rundown, which builds off of @sarahpereztc’s earlier scoop, here: https://twitter.com/TechCrunch/status/1777185918073368716

New Bill to Require Disclosure of Songs Used in Generative AI Training – https://www.billboard.com/business/legal/federal-bill-ai-training-require-disclosure-songs-used-1235651089/

Air Chat launches – Airchat: Just Talk – https://www.air.chat/

“I uploaded two music tracks to Gemini 1.5 Pro: Black Sea by Drexciya, and Song of Scheherazade by Renaissance, and asked it to analyse them https://twitter.com/sebkrier/status/1778386521319428167

Geimini 1.5’s audio capability is actually scarily good… : r/OpenAI – https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1c0a0dv/geimini_15s_audio_capability_is_actually_scarily/

‘It’s very easy to steal someone’s voice’: how AI is affecting video game actors | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/29/how-ai-is-affecting-video-game-actors

“It can “hear” -> Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro can now process audio w/out needing a transcript “The model can now listen to uploaded audio files and churn out information from things like earnings calls or audio from videos without the need to refer to a written transcript.” https://twitter.com/glenngabe/status/1777746267667365998

Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro can now hear – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/9/24124741/google-gemini-pro-imagen-updates-vertex

Exclusive: NYT to soon offer most articles via automated voice – https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/exclusive-nyt-to-soon-offer-most-articles-via-automated-voice

Udio

“Your welcome! Udio https://twitter.com/Jakestein776/status/1777912745892966498

GIANT WHALE https://twitter.com/Jakestein776/status/1777913344516604273

“Introducing Udio, an app for music creation and sharing that allows you to generate amazing music in your favorite styles with intuitive and powerful text-prompting. 1/11 https://twitter.com/udiomusic/status/1778045322654003448

“Explore an extraordinary range of genres and styles. Here’s pumping EDM, swinging piano-jazz, mellow neo-soul, and extreme metal. 3/11 https://twitter.com/udiomusic/status/1778045327787921759

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