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Enshittification is not a metaphor. It is a staged, deliberate extraction of value from everyone who built the Internet...
Platforms follow a predictable decline pattern. They draw in creators and audiences with genuinely helpful services, then exploit both to serve advertisers, and finally extract maximum value from everyone, including the advertisers. Each phase remains profitable.
The music industry's infrastructure paradox. When the money moves faster than the data.
More happened this week that the music industry will be arguing about for the next decade! Google acquired ProducerAI. Lyria 3 now generates a full vocal track, with lyrics, in the time it takes a publisher to find a contract template. Meta is deploying stablecoin payments to 3.58 billion people.
Six layers, one week. The week AI music grew up! How a market convergence made copyright infrastructure non-negotiable!
Six layers of the AI music value chain, creation, remix, distribution, production, integrity, and visibility, moved simultaneously for the first time. A market that was experimental last year is organized this year, and organized markets have non-negotiable infrastructure requirements.
Programmable intellectual property. What does it mean when the Copyright speaks directly to AI?
NIM services now include a Cloudflare content-signal header, offering a practical improvement that creative businesses have long needed. A clear permission switch for AI use that travels with the content itself. The Content-Signal header is the first AI encountered when reading copyrighted content.