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A song featuring an AI-generated version of Drake and The Weeknd went viral before being taken down by a streaming service. Is censorship of AI-generated songs the way forward? Or, as some artists like Grimes have suggested, can singers benefit from synthetic voices?
Then HatGPT: Kevin and Casey pull headlines from their hats and create their own take on the news.
And former BuzzFeed News editor Ben Smith talks about the end of the digital media era in the 2010s.
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Hosted by “Hard Fork” Kevin Ruth and Casey Newton and produced by Davis Rand and Rachel Cohn. The show is edited by Paula Schuckman and Jen Poyant.Engineering by her Alyssa Moxley, original music by Dan Powell, Elisheva Itup, Marion Lozano, Sophia Lamman, Rowan Niemist. Fact-checking by Caitlin Love.
Special thanks to Pui-Wing Tam, Nell Gallogly, Kate LoPresti, and Jeffrey Miranda.
