AI Music Gets a Warning Label · The Catalog · №003
Apple and Spotify now tagging AI music, Anthropic eyes $2T IPO, Colour Revolt reunites in Mississippi, and a secret datacenter deal lands in my backyard.
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CONTENTS
New Arrivals (Streaming Services Add AI Labels, Sunlight as a Service, Dolly's Family Asks for Books, Get Paid to Tie Your Shoes, Biggest IPO in History Might Be Weeks Away)
The Feature (Colour Revolt Is Back)
Observations (A Secret Deal in My Own Backyard, Norcross Expedition photos)
NEW ARRIVALS
01 · Streaming Music Services Add AI Labels
Apple Music will now require labels and artists to tag new tracks when AI helped create them. An Apple executive estimated earlier this year that 1/3 of all song submissions were entirely AI-generated. I think Apple deserves credit for burying those songs with proprietary detection tech, prioritizing human curation over algorithmic discovery. Today on Apple Music, entirely AI-generated songs account for less than 0.5% of listening time.
