Spotify is filling up with AI-Generated music to scam revenue from real bands

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1. Spotify is filling up with AI-Generated music to scam revenue from real bands

A group of country music fans discovered a stream-stealing scheme using AI covers of songs to gain millions of listens. The bogus bands, with generic-sounding names, had thousands of streams, zero original songs, bios resembling ChatGPT's, and no social media footprint.

Spotify claims it doesn't have a policy against artists creating content using AI tools, but it doesn't take down the alleged AI covers. This issue has been happening for years with ambient, electronic, and jazz music.

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2. With AI food recognition Samsung Food could be the ultimate meal-planning app

Samsung's AI-powered food and recipe app, Samsung Food Plus, now allows users to add items to a Food List by taking a picture. The app can suggest recipes based on the food, remove them when cooking, and add them back when ticked off the shopping list.

The service is available for $6.99 a month ($59.99 a year) and works on both iOS and Android devices. The app also offers a "Search with Your Food List" feature for easy recipe searching.

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3. A tech firm stole our voices - then cloned and sold them

Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage, voice-over performers, have filed a lawsuit against text-to-speech platform Lovo for allegedly stealing their voices and creating AI clones. They allege that Lovo obtained the recordings under false pretences, using anonymous employees to record audio assets on Fiverr, a popular freelance talent website.

The couple claims that the audio will be used for research into speech synthesis, a field they believe could be a threat to their careers. The couple has filed a lawsuit against Lovo, which has not yet responded to their request for comment.

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4. Tesla plans robotaxi reveal at California Warner Bros. studio, report says

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced a robotaxi event in August after the company scrapped plans for a low-cost electric car. However, the event was postponed until October to allow time for prototypes to demonstrate autonomous driving capabilities.

Despite Musk's promises, safety standards remain a challenge. The event is being held at a movie studio, despite Musk's polarizing views.

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5. Cartesia AI released Rene: A groundbreaking 1.3B parameter open-source small LLM

Cartesia AI has released Rene, a 1.3 billion-parameter language model, transforming natural language processing applications. Rene is built on a hybrid architecture combining Mamba-2's feedforward and sliding window attention layers, allowing it to manage long-range dependencies and context.

The model uses the Dolma-1.7 dataset and the allenai/OLMo-1B-hf tokenizer to efficiently process text in multiple languages. Rene is versatile and suitable for large-scale language understanding tasks, such as content creation and data analysis. It is available in PyTorch and a native MLX version for Mac computers.

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