#57 Can the Music Industry Win the Battle Against AI?

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In this episode, we explore:

• LLMs Gaming the System: Uncover how LLMs are using political sycophancy and tool-using flattery to game the system. Dive deeper: paper, chain of thought prompting & post on x.
• Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Sue AI Music Generators: They are taking on Suno and Udio for using copyrighted music to train their models. Some ai generated music that is very similar to existing songs: song 1, song 2, song 3. More on GenAI: midjourney creating copyrighted images, and chatGPT reciting email-adresses.
• AI-Powered Olympic Recaps: NBC’s personalized daily recaps with Al Michaels' voice offer a new way to catch up on the Olympics.
• Figma’s AI Redesign: Discover Figma’s new AI tools that speed up design and creativity. We debate the tool's value and its application in the design process.
• Rabbit R1 Security Flaws: Hackers exposed hardcoded API keys in Rabbit R1’s source code, leading to major security issues. Find out more.
• Pyinstrument for Python: Meet Pyinstrument, the easy-to-use Python profiler that optimizes code performance. Explore it on GitHub.
• The Ultimate Font - Bart’s dreams come true: Explore the groundbreaking integration of True Type Fonts with AI for dynamic text rendering. Discover more here.
• Hot Takes on AI Competition: Google claims no one has a moat in AI, sparking debate on open-source models' future. We also explore Ladybird Browser Project, an independently funded browser project aiming to build a cutting-edge browser engine.

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1. #57 Can the Music Industry Win the Battle Against AI? (00:00:00)

2. Neural Networks and Specification Gaming (00:00:03)

3. AI Music Copyright Infringement (00:12:22)

4. Copyright and AI Model Similarities (00:19:30)

5. AI-Generated Content Design Tools (00:31:48)

6. Security Flaws in Rabbit R1 Device (00:43:38)

7. Discussion on NFTs and Python Profiling (00:53:41)

8. Font and Language Model Experimentation (00:58:12)

9. Future of AI Competition and Models (01:08:18)

10. Ladybird Browser and Mozilla Migration (01:17:30)