Behind the Blog: Eating the Internet
404 Media's behind-the-scenes post discusses reporting on AI-generated music impersonating real artists on Spotify and other weekly stories.
404 Media's Behind the Blog column discusses how recent stories were reported. Reporter Emanuel Maiberg describes investigating AI-generated music released on Spotify under real artists' names, finding hundreds of examples of the abuse. The post is partially paywalled member content.
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This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss just doing it, machines that eat the internet, and an eavesdropping watch.
EMANUEL: It is a foundational, defining feature of 404 Media, but I sometimes forget that when I’m having trouble with a story, I need to just do it.
This is most of all true when it comes to reporting. I spent a couple of weeks looking into AI generated music on Spotify appearing under the names of real artists. It’s an issue I and many other publications have reported on in the past, but whenever I look into it I am shocked by how prevalent the issue is. If you talk to any musician or spend some time clicking around music platforms yourself, you’re going to quickly find hundreds of examples of this abuse of the digital music distribution system.
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