News Summary

• Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models.
• Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks.
• The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over 100,000 songs each.
• Names that pop up in the dataset range from pop stars like Lady Gaga and Fred Again..
• to Radiohead, Aphex Twin, Wu-Tang Clan, Bruce Springsteen, and experimental composer Hainbach.