Reddit is shutting two of the main ways outsiders pull data from the site. The company said in an announcement yesterday that RSS feeds will stop working on November 13, and public access to its API closes in March 2027. “In August, we shared plans to modernize Reddit’s infrastructure, build better mod tools, and make it harder for bad actors to scrape Reddit and abuse communities. Today, we have specifics on what’s changing, when, and how to plan ahead,” Reddit said.
Source: Reddit Is Killing RSS Feeds and Public API Access to Fight AI Scrapers
At a time when artificial intelligence-generated songs are topping Billboard charts, creating a scary and confusing conversation for many in Nashville’s music industry, one company just off Music Row is using the technology to help artists recover money they’ve already earned. Muserk uses patented AI systems to search through billions of lines of streaming data from platforms like YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music to find royalties that songwriters and artists may not have received.
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The company has commissioned a survey of 1,070 business executives in the UK about how their companies use music, estimating that around 800,000 business locations there play music every day. However, 86% of those companies are playing that music through regular streaming services – Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and Amazon Music are all popular options – despite those consumer services not being licensed for business use.
Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress,” is having a rough time on its first press tour. The production company that created it, Particle6 Group, has made it available for 75 simultaneous interviews with journalists, and it seems to be making mistakes in all of them. In one particularly odd interview with Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti, which was recorded and posted online, Norwood seems to malfunction and abruptly begin speaking Chinese.
SubmitHub has announced a new AI policy that builds on Spotify’s move to keep AI music out of recommendations. With Spotify tightening the leash on what can earn royalties, SubmitHub says it won’t build a platform that promotes music that won’t get any plays on the major streamers. It’s a notable change given that neither SubmitHub nor Spotify seemed to have much of a problem with AI-generated music in its infancy. But now things are changing.
If you image search on Google for ‘cultural heritage Australia’, near the top of the results is a photograph of giant carved stone heads rising from a red desert. They look ancient and real. But the image is a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) fabrication that never existed, and it is circulating the internet as though it is a real record of Australia’s history. While GenAI, the technology has the potential to broaden access to knowledge, it can also popularise false histories and strip Indigenous Knowledge of its context.
LLMs can process financial reports, legal documents and scientific papers at enormous scale. But access to that material does not reproduce the judgement of someone who has spent years working in the field. Demand for specialized human input is already supporting a substantial commercial market. A fast-growing segment of companies now connects AI developers with doctors, lawyers, scientists and other specialists who can create and evaluate professional tasks.
ElevenLabs has released Music v2.5, the new model behind its ElevenMusic song-generation platform. The model went live on Friday (September 11) and is now the default “for prompted and reference generation” in ElevenMusic, the company said in a blog post.It landed a day after ElevenLabs announced a multi-year licensing agreement with Universal Music Group – a deal the company says is separate from the new model.