The head of the RIAA and a tech journalist, once on opposite sides of the Napster fight, now share the same complaint about AI companies.
Mitch Glazier, CEO and chairman of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), sat down with the host of The Verge's Decoder podcast. The two have a history. The host was in college when Napster hit and later defended kids sued over music downloads. Glazier was a young RIAA lawyer working on those cases. Now they agree on something.
According to the host, the RIAA, record labels, artists and ordinary people are all unhappy with big AI companies in the same way. The complaints are that the companies train on everyone's work without permission and flood feeds with low-quality AI content, often called slop.
The RIAA both lobbies for changes to the law and files lawsuits on behalf of record labels and distributors, so its view carries weight.
The published excerpt cuts off before Glazier's answers. It does not say what rules he wants, whether any labeling plan exists, or whether Spotify or YouTube would agree to one. Those details are in the full episode.
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