Why would you disrespect your favorite artist with an AI remix?

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AI covers and remixes of songs are already a blight connected the internet. Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are awash successful level reggae versions of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," dinky state renditions of The Weeknd, and monotonous Motown reimaginings of AC/DC. Now, a new instrumentality from Spotify volition marque them adjacent easier to make and share.

Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) signed a licensing woody that volition let users to make remixes and covers from UMG's catalog. How precisely it volition work, beyond being "powered by generative AI technology," oregon however overmuch it volition cost, is unclear. They're positioning this arsenic a premium subscription add-on …

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