This Can't Be Cake
Upsample with Carson Tworow & Will Chernoff · Chernoff Music
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Show Notes
(0:00) Will has a camera!
(3:07) "'A Billion Streams and No Fans': Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case", by Kate Knibbs of WIRED
(17:24) Spotify tracks on the wrong artist profiles
(37:59) What happens when the AI-gen floodgates burst?
(44:27) Is Will being too naive about AI videos?
(52:52) Recommendations
We reference Search Engine's podcast episode "The Russian Cake Switcheroo" and the Anthony Fantano video "Massive Problem on Spotify" . The music project from the WIRED story is here.
Recs: Carson - setting up your own music server at home, Will - Dialectic podcast hosted by Jackson Dahl with guest Alex Danco, start at 59:00 for music scene discussion
FIND US:
Will
-YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@williamchernoff/
-Rhythm Changes: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/
-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/williamchernoff/
Carson
-YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ctworow/
-Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ctworow.bsky.social/
-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ctworow/
Hosted by Carson Tworow & Will Chernoff. Edited and mixed by Will Chernoff. A Chernoff Music podcast. Theme music by Carson Tworow.