It doesn’t matter if nobody actually wants AI music; the major labels are still going to push it on us. Reuters reports that Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group, the three currently extant major-label umbrella groups, have all negotiated a licensing deal with an AI music streaming startup called Klay. That means that Klay is the first AI music streaming service to come to deals with all three major labels, and the company now can now train its model on tens of thousands of recordings.
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