Random music news for Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Here’s where the next season of The White Lotus will be set. Wow. Meanwhile, music news for February 7, 2024, is completely free.
- Napster has a new playlist creation deal with ChatGPT.
- And Google has a new AI-powered image generator.
- One more thing: I thought Google was supposed to be all about ethical AI music development. Maybe not. There are some issues with its text-to-music tool called MusicFX.
- Predictions are that Apple will ship 350,000 of their new Vision Pro headsets in the first year. And they cost US$3,500 each. People are calling this a make or break moment for AR/VR.
- Talks over how to regulate AI in the the UK have broken down.
- Threads is not dead. The platform has 130 million active users.
- Grammy ratings were up 34% over last year. It’s the Tay-Tay effect.
- Meanwhile, Drake let it be known once again that he hates the Grammys.
- Nerd headline of the day: Mathematicians have finally proved that Bach was a great composer.
- Nice one, Rod Stewart and Johnny Depp.
- Interesting theory…
- There’s another music memorabilia auction coming up. Anyone want Madonna’s bathrobe?
- “Cursive singing?” What’s that? Oh.
- Lisa Roberts was a co-founder of Hole back in the day. She flew to the front lines to help Ukraine.
- Taylor Swift is threatening legal action against a teen who is tracking her private jet.
Random music news for Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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— Figen (@TheFigen_) February 4, 2024
Regarding the Swift plane tracking…Swift has a holding company own the plane, and isn’t in her name exactly, so technically Sweeney is posting up a track of a plane that is owned by a shell company, and not exactly Swift.
Most aircraft aren’t owned by those flying them, often they are owned by a shell company, or a bank owns them while a mortgage is being paid. Swift has a shell company buy the aircraft to protect herself from any failures with the plane, as most rich people do.
Musk tried to stop Sweeney but wasn’t able to for similar reasons.
ADS-B, the transponder system on the aircraft, sends out a location and identification every second that travels hundreds of nautical miles in all directions, and is picked up by other planes and ground stations. Anyone with the correct receiving equipment can see this info, and it is all available on the interwebs on sites such as PlaneFinder, FlightRadar24, etc. Anyone can see this info because it is completely public.
I understand why Tay-Tay is upset about this, but it’s public domain, and illegal for her pilots to shut the system off. Her reaction feels like a Barbara Streisand reaction when Bab’s found out that her house was on the internet. It is just making things worse.
This won’t last long in court.