Tag: Music

Singer Vérité’s fan-first approach to Web3, music NFTs and community building – Cointelegraph Magazine

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Carving out a sustainable career as an independent musician is no easy feat. The competition is fierce, support can be hard to find, and earning a living without the financial help of a major record label is an uphill battle. Yet, for those who are able to build a loyal fanbase, the freedom of complete creative control can be liberating. Technology has long proven to be a potential friend to those musicians willing to embrace it, and nonfungible tokens are the latest innovation that many tech-savvy artists have begun incorporating…

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How can the synergy of AI and blockchain disrupt the music industry?

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The synergy of AI and blockchain can revolutionize the music industry by enhancing artists’ creative capabilities while preserving transparency and fair revenue distribution among creators.  AI is increasingly being used as a tool for creating new songs or imitating existing music content.  That is why distinguishing human-generated music from AI-generated content is becoming increasingly difficult.  Moreover, AI content is often trained on pre-existing content mostly without its original creators’ knowledge or consent, creating a number of ethical and legal issues, for which there are no clear-cut solutions currently given the rapid…

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Apple developing pocket AI, deep fake music deal, hypnotizing GPT-4 – Cointelegraph Magazine

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Apple wants to put an AI in your pocket Apple has been playing its cards close to its chest when it comes to AI. While rival Microsoft has jumped on the ChatGPT bandwagon and is integrating AI into everything despite the bugs and hallucinations, the acronym didn’t even get a mention at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Reports emerged in July, however, that Apple was working on its own generative AI tool, dubbed internally “Apple GPT,” which uses a large language model (LLM) framework called Ajax. On this week’s…

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On-chain music sounds off with latest raise, artistic duo Hackatao find their lane  – Cointelegraph Magazine

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Greg Oakford, co-founder of NFT Fest Australia, is your guide to the world of NFTs from a collector’s and fan’s perspective.  With Sound’s recent $20 million raise, music collectibles have reignited a spark in my mind. While music really hasn’t had its moment in the sun, as has the art market and the PFP mania of 2021–2022, collectible on-chain music feels inevitable.  Collecting music is not new. It’s had many iterations, from vinyl to cassettes to CDs to mp3s (remember that thing called Napster?) to $0.99 tracks on iTunes. My…

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Tokenizing music royalties as NFTs could help the next Taylor Swift – Cointelegraph Magazine

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Since 2021, pop superstar Taylor Swift has been rerecording and releasing her entire back catalog of albums in an effort to break away from her previous record label and gain greater control over her art. The fact she has to go through such a painstaking, expensive process just to recover what most would consider rightfully hers highlights how the music industry can be a complicated, confusing place for young artists. It has a well-deserved reputation for being a space where enthusiastic musicians often unknowingly enter into unfavorable or exploitative record…

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Fine art on Solana, AI music, podcast + book reviews – Cointelegraph Magazine

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BitCulture explores arts, culture, music and media in blockchain and Web3. Fine art on the blockchain Exchange.art head curator Haley Karren came to Web3 from some of the world’s leading art institutions and says that working with 14,000 artists on Solana’s fine art marketplace has broadened her tastes.  Exchange.art head curator Haley Karren (Supplied) “I have a new appreciation for pixel art, voxels and things that really are very much native to this space. It’s been fascinating to see the difference between what I was more interested in two years ago…

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