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Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI

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A group of independent musicians is suing Google claiming it trained Lyria on their uploads. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge

If you've uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won't admit it right now.

A group of independent musicians is suing Google, claiming that it illegally used songs they uploaded to YouTube to train its Lyria 3 model. Google has filed a motion to dismiss the case, saying:

Their lawsuit is based on the unsupported hypothesis that Google trained on their specific works. Even accepting their untested allegations as fact, the Complaint cannot stand. Plaintiffs each granted YouTube, and Google - which provides the service-a broad license to use the uploaded con …

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Five questions for the duo behind The Pelley Minutes

Scott Pelley, correspondent, 60 Minutes. | Photo by Michele Crowe/CBS News via Getty Images

Websites are so back! Today's website worth visiting is The Pelley Minutes, a clever project that puts the career of longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley into perspective. The show may only be 60 minutes long, but Pelley racked up nearly 37,000 minutes in his 37-year long career, reporting on almost everything humanity has put on display - from chess battlefields to real-world warzones.

Pelley was fired recently after standing up to the new bosses at CBS, who he has accused of "murdering" the legendary news show. In an interview with The New York Times, he warned of an alarming new world at the network where there's "a thumb on th …

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South Wales Police Shelves Anti-Islam β€œHostility” Recording Plans After Legal Challenge Threat

South Wales Police has shelved plans to record incidents of "anti-Muslim hostility" after the Free Speech Union threatened a judicial review – calling it a de facto blasphemy law.

The post South Wales Police Shelves Anti-Islam β€œHostility” Recording Plans After Legal Challenge Threat appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Little Red Dots | Primordial Black Holes or Big Bang Failures?

Recent findings from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) indicate that Little Red Dots (LRD) could be primordial black holes, challenging the big bang theory. The data suggests these objects formed too soon for typical galaxy evolution, raising questions about cosmological interpretations and the nature of observational evidence.

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