Bandcamp bans music and audio “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI”, hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find “was created by humans”
Bandcamp bans music and audio “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI”, hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find “was created by humans”
Bandcamp has banned music substantially generated by AI to uphold human artistry and authenticity, amid rising concerns over AI flooding platforms like Spotify.
Sam Altman says he believes in “techno-capitalism” and is “politically homeless” as Democrats no longer encourage a “culture of innovation and entrepreneurship”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's ‘politically homeless’ in July 4 post bashing Democrats — cnbc.com/2025/07/04/o... Sacha Ramtohul / @poticha : Not to anyone's surprise but Altman's as much a real-li...
A look at the underground floppy disk music scene; Discogs data shows 500+ floppy music releases in the 2020s, more than in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s combined
The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought … Mastodon: @yacht@ravenation.club . LinkedIn: Tom M. Novak and Thomas Walskaar . ...
Internal memo: Discord CEO Jason Citron says the company is laying off 17% of its staff, or 170 people, after growing its workforce “by 5x since 2020”
I continue to ask whether it's incompetence or optimism that's causing deeper cuts now than last year from tech CEOs? — https://www.theverge.com/... @mttaggart@infosec.town : The layoffs are bad, of...
Music storefront Bandcamp lays off nearly 50% of its workforce, or 58 employees, as part of Songtradr's acquisition of the company from Epic Games in September
Stephen Council / SFGATE :
Music licensing marketplace Songtradr acquires Bandcamp and plans to keep operating Bandcamp as a marketplace and community with an artist-first revenue share
Epic Games lays off 16% of its workforce, or ~830 employees, divests from music storefront Bandcamp, and intends to spin off “kid-tech” company SuperAwesome
Earlier today Tim Sweeney sent the following email to Epic employees: Tim Sweezy / HotHardware : Epic Games Confirms Massive Layoffs After Fortnite And Metaverse Spending Spree Jamie Crawley / CoinDes...
Google agrees to keep Bandcamp in the Play Store even if it doesn't adopt Google's in-app payment system; Epic will keep 10% of Bandcamp's IAP revenue in escrow
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide :