New tools make it harder for AI to train off copyrighted music

Marketplace Tech

American Public Media

Technology, News

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Last month, a band called The Velvet Sundown surged in popularity on Spotify with its 70s inflected rock. Yeah, it was all generated by AI.

Synthetic music is getting better and better, leaving a lot of human artists concerned that their original work could be used to feed the machines that might take their jobs. Now some researchers are fighting back with a tool called “MusicShield.”

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1:06.7	From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.
1:32.0	Last month, a band called The Velvet Sundown surged in popularity on Spotify, with its 70s inflected rock and slightly too surreal publicity photos. Yeah, it was all generated by AI. Synthetic music is getting better and better,
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