Music. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update.
EP 307. In this week’s update: Australia just told AI: you can't have the top of the charts without proving a human sang it. Anthropic's getting sued by Sony and Warner for billions over music they used to train Claude-and the question isn't whether they did it, it's whether you can even build an AI without consuming human culture. Your device just became a tracking instrument the moment you opened AliExpress, and Alibaba's using inaudible soundwaves to do it. Google's building a lifestyle app that turns your aspirations into AI cartoons, one limited story at a time. New Zealand decided no one under 16 gets TikTok or a ChatGPT boyfriend, and they're scanning faces to make sure. Motorola's about to let you buy a phone in 2027 and switch to a privacy-hardened OS without breaking it. Apple got caught flat-footed by enterprise demand for AI Macs and had to move up their release schedule. And the Bank of England just warned that frontier AI could destabilize...
