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What we watch, read and believe in the age of generated content — and who gets paid for it.

19 stories · updated daily
The last 12 weeks
Good newsMixedConcerning

This week

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4 min readMixedSpotify pulls 50 million AI 'slop' tracks out of listener recommendationsThe streaming giant says it's filtering AI-generated spam out of people's feeds, but the royalty math that dilutes human artists' pay is still unresolved.3 min readMixedApple quietly buys an AI tool that lets musicians edit notes after recordingApple acquired key assets and staff from Swiss startup Samplab, whose AI can turn recorded audio into editable notes — a feature likely headed for Logic Pro.

Last week

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3 min readMixedUMG and Sony sue to make DistroKid reveal its AI song upload numbersThe major labels want data on how many AI-generated tracks the huge indie distributor pushes to Spotify and Apple Music, as evidence against AI music maker Suno.3 min readMixedYouTube Music starts labeling AI songs, but won't limit how they're paidA tappable "Made with AI" label is rolling out to flag AI-generated tracks, joining a wave of streaming disclosure rules that stop short of restricting AI music itself.4 min readMixedCharacter.AI files for bankruptcy; Disney leads bid for its assetsThe chatbot startup behind millions of roleplay conversations is being sold off after lawsuits over teen safety and a copyright fight with Disney.

Earlier in October

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  1. Musician sentenced to 18 months for $8M AI-generated streaming fraudA North Carolina man used bots and hundreds of thousands of AI-made songs to fake billions of streams, in the first U.S. criminal case of its kind.Mixed
  2. Sony Music's AI deepfake takedowns nearly double to 260,000 in six monthsSony says fake AI tracks cloning its artists' voices are appearing faster than labels can pull them down, while a federal fix stalls in the Senate.Mixed

September 2026

7 stories6 mixed1 concerning
  1. Appeals court rules AI firm's copying of Westlaw content wasn't fair useThe Third Circuit upheld Thomson Reuters' win against Ross Intelligence, the first appellate ruling on whether copying content to train an AI system counts as fair use.Mixed
  2. Jason Isbell and other musicians sue AI music platform Suno over voice cloningA class-action suit says Suno lets users generate songs that mimic real artists' voices and styles, reigniting the fight over who owns an AI-cloned identity.Mixed
  3. Mirror and Express publisher cuts 220 more jobs as AI search drains trafficReach is cutting 220 editorial jobs and closing three local news sites after Google's AI summaries slashed nearly half its search traffic.Concerning
  4. Anthropic Safety Staff Say AI Could Kill Everyone, and They're Saying It in PublicA researcher quit Anthropic over "gambling with our lives," and two current colleagues publicly agreed on X that a future superintelligent AI could kill everyone within a decade.Mixed
  5. Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI, Microsoft over AI use of their articlesTwo regional U.S. newspapers say ChatGPT, Copilot and Bing used their journalism, including subscriber-only stories, without payment or permission.Mixed
  6. Voice actors split over AI clones as freelance work dries upStars are licensing their voices for millions while non-union freelancers say cheap AI clones are wiping out the small gigs that used to pay their bills.Mixed
  7. Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI, Microsoft Over Use of Their JournalismTwo more news organizations say ChatGPT and Copilot were trained on their reporting without permission or payment, joining a growing wave of publisher lawsuits.Mixed

August 2026

5 stories4 mixed1 concerning
  1. Sony Music and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Song Lyrics in AI Training35 music publishers say Anthropic pirated millions of songs and books to train Claude, seeking damages that could reach billions of dollars.Mixed
  2. Music industry builds a system to flag which songs are AI-madeLuminate, the data engine behind Billboard's charts, will start tagging AI-generated songs and artists — but the labels aren't visible to listeners yet.Mixed
  3. Australia bans fully AI-made songs from its official music chartsStarting this week, tracks on Australia's ARIA charts must be "substantially human made," pushing wholly AI-generated music out of contention.Mixed
  4. Twitch now lets you opt out of AI training — but you're opted in by defaultAmazon has used Twitch streams, chats and clips to train its generative AI for years; a new toggle can stop future use, but it won't undo the past.Mixed
  5. Google pulls AI image tool from Google Earth just one day after launchUsers quickly showed the new feature could fabricate convincing fake satellite imagery, like refugees at the border or bomb damage near a hospital.Concerning