The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music (opens in new tab)

The Atlantic [no paywall]: “…AI music generators can simulate human performances with surprising fidelity, but first they have to be trained on enormous quantities of those human performances. The actual recordings that go into any model are a closely guarded secret—AI companies have claimed they are proprietary—but the number of songs is almost certainly huge, spanning genres and time periods. As part of my series of investigations into AI training data, I recently discovered four giant data...