Major Music Labels Strike Deals With New AI Streaming Service (bloomberg.com)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/11/20/2239227/major-music-labels-strike-deals-with-new-ai-streaming-service
- Source link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-20/major-music-labels-strike-deals-with-new-ai-streaming-service
> The world's largest music companies have [1]licensed their works to a music startup called Klay , which is building a streaming service that will allow users to remake songs using artificial intelligence tools. Klay is the first music AI service to reach a deal with all three major record labels, Universal Music Group NV, Sony Music and Warner Music Group Corp., according to people familiar with the deals. Klay plans to announce its agreements in the coming days, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing confidential plans.
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> Klay is building a product that will offer the features of a streaming service like Spotify, amplified by AI technology that will let users remake songs in different styles. Klay has licensed the rights to thousands of hit songs so that it can train its large language model. The company has positioned itself as a friend of the industry, offering assurances that the artists and labels will have some control over how their work is used. Klay is led by music producer Ary Attie and also employs former executives from Sony Music and Google's DeepMind, an AI laboratory.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-20/major-music-labels-strike-deals-with-new-ai-streaming-service
Musicians deserve what they demand (Score:1)
I don't even feel sorry for musicians anymore. If you signed a deal, you knew what you were getting into. Why any real musician would sign with one of these companies is absolutely beyond my comprehension.
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Historically, musicians signed bad deals because the music labels were gatekeepers and if they wanted to have the success of a big popular band they had to sell their souls to get it.
Now musicians can make a decent living without having to sign their soul away. But thirty years ago there wasn't a lot of choice for most people.
Re: Musicians deserve what they demand (Score:2)
There might be a few musicians still under contract from 30 years ago, but nowadays, the vast majority of them would have had an opportunity to get off the treadmill.
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Sure, but in most cases their music is still owned by the label they signed their souls to. Who can license it to anyone they want to turn into AI slop.
Re: Musicians deserve what they demand (Score:2)
Is it possible that demand for AI slop is greater than demand for actual musician slop?
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There are some pretty good AI songs out there. Lots of really bad ones, but people who know what they're doing can now easily make the songs they want to hear.
I know someone who was a moderately-successful musician in the 90s (some Top 40 songs at the time) and now makes his own songs with AI after being out of music completely for twenty years. You could kind of tell the early ones were AI-generated but the later ones not really.
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I demand that you have heard of me! But i didn't sign a deal, so you've never heard of me; and if i've not signed a deal, how are you gonna hear about me anyway? tiktok? spotify algorithms? fucking youtube? you think google, or the guy giving money to military AI development, or china deserves a portion of my money instead of the record label scumbags, who might at least put some man hours into promotion?
Or do you think every musician should also be obligated to be their own record company, performing
Re: Musicians deserve what they demand (Score:2)
First, no one has a right to make a living from their art.
Second, working musicians are a thing, and they don't need record labels to be successful.
Third, if you need an agent or manager, get an agent or manager. Just don't sign away your art and then complain you don't control it or benefit from it.
Who even wants this? (Score:3)
Seriously, for what?
Re: Who even wants this? (Score:2)
Ever want to create a band with artists that didn't play together in real life? What if you could sit in?
Re: Who even wants this? (Score:1)
It sounds like a tool for creating clickbait videos. CANNIBAL CORPSE IN THE STYLE OF BANANARAMA! sort of shit. But I think most people will get bored and cancel before their 30 day trial renews.
the more things change... (Score:2)
The labels don't give a fuck. They have never been on the side of the artists. This is just another way they'll use to game the system to keep most of the profits in the system to themselves.
Way to protect the artists (Score:3)
Jerkwads.
Re: Way to protect the artists (Score:2)
Is basic income looking better yet?
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Because billionaires are totally going to hand out vast amounts of money so people who don't make money for them can sit around at home watching pr0n.
UBI cultists love to talk about how evil the rich are while also claiming that the rich will pay them to do nothing productive. Because billionaires are such lovely, caring people.
Re: Way to protect the artists (Score:1)
What if billionaires don't fund the basic income? What if the Fed does, while offering individual inflation-proofed savings accounts so no one need fear nominal inflation?
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Billionaires own the government.
If they push for UBI it will be so they can easily separate the useless eaters from the productive people they need, and then they'll be sending Terminators around to everyone who claims UBI.