Bas Grasmayer

Deezer/Ipsos survey: 97% of people can’t tell the difference between fully AI-generated and human made music – clear desire for transparency and fairness for artists - Deezer Newsroom Deezer and Ipsos unveil a first-of-its-kind study exploring attitudes and perceptions around AI and music, conducted across 8 countries with 9000 people. The survey shows overwhelming support for labe...

“participants were asked to listen to three tracks and determine whether or not they were fully AI-generated – 97% of the respondents failed”

newsroom-deezer.com/2025/11/deez...

How you hear these two tones might depend on if you grew up in California or the United Kingdom. Noam Hassenfeld, host of the Unexplainable podcast, talks to researcher Diana Deutsch about why people from different countries hear tritones differently.

(podcaster wedding vows) My fiance, soon-husband, works at Anthropic

Please stop using AI browsers Agentic AI browsers are dangerous, and even some of the biggest browser companies think so.

“Enjoy the futuristic capabilities of these browsers by all means, but remember that even Opera's 10% success rate with one particular prompt injection attack means that you need to be lucky every time, while an attacker only needs to get lucky once.”

www.xda-developers.com/please-stop-...

Innovation at major labels often looks like:

1 Startup has new tech they want to apply.
2 Get shown the door at the label.
3 Investors and founders take risk, develop tech, and launch without proper licenses.
4 Label sues.
5 Startup and label settle with licensing deal.

Major label: INNOVATION!

2025 and German media still call female DJs “DJane”. 🤦‍♂️

The “Forever” Stakes of Generative AI Ownership On synthetic data and dead labour

I wrote about AI + why artists need ownership (incl. governance) or they’re up shit creek!

A simple but important argument! And I messed w/ David Harvey’s “Paths of Capital Accumulation” diagram to make it 🤓FUN!

+ a Neil Young song 🧛🔵🏖️!

musicx.substack.com/p/the-foreve...

When I was still on TikTok I noticed another phenomenon: clips of parties in the 00s with embittered comments about how “we” millennials did it so much better than the younger generation.

My generation is turning into what we disliked about online boomers.

There’s a generational changing of the guards happening.

What tacky boomer memes on Facebook were for the previous generation of the internet..

Corny millennial AI slop is for this generation.

Busy Simulator Pretend you're busy by playing a bunch of app notification sounds. Made by Brian Moore.

Stress response all over. busysimulator.com

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Calm & Fluffy October Offline Quest - Create Your Retro Ticket Create your personalized offline adventure ticket with beautiful 16-bit pixel art. Take a break from screens with style!

I've also built a little tool to set your parameters for the quest, what exceptions you'd like to make, etc.

It creates a ticket as a reminder.

Have fun!

offline.calmfluffy.com

Why I’m spending my October evenings offline And how you can join me on this adventure for peace & health

Earlier this year I left my phone at home for a month and was offline every time I went out.

In October I'm inverting that: I'll go offline at home, every day at 8pm.

You can join the adventure •‿•

Read more here: calmfluffy.substack.com/p/why-im-spe...

Not just this one •‿•

I wish you were wrong more often, Mike…

I lived in Russia for a few years around 2012 and as a foreign visitor, I’m more worried about visiting the US now than I was about Russia back then.

Every day I wake up to another reason to be happy not to have a job that requires me to travel to the US.

With a background in both music and tech, industries highly oriented towards NYC & California, I’m actively making career choices to further avoid this.

The great thing Apple Music has going for it is its Classical app, but luckily, I still have IDAGIO for that.

One thing I love about Tidal is that it uses Feature.fm when you share music with friends. So they can open it in their fav music streaming service, rather than forcing them to use Tidal.

It recognises that most people's friends don't use Tidal & prioritises the sharer's user satisfaction.

Went nomadic after 15 years with Spotify.

Tried Apple Music out for 3 months, but the way the app is designed is really clunky (still don't understand the difference between favourite & add to library).

Now trying Tidal and it's seriously underrated.

I am SO tired of ads for Shopify.

How Spotify’s recommendations UX might be pushing down per-stream royalty rates — even if total payouts increase Mapping the new music business.

One of my fav pieces I wrote in the last years is no longer behind a paywall.

The article examines the history of Spotify's product design, highlighting the tension between its platform incentives and the interests of artists whose music it serves to its fans.

www.waterandmusic.com/how-spotifys...

Equity could be a solution if cash is too expensive. bsky.app/profile/arst...

From Spotify to ChatGPT: The case for distributed ownership of platforms built on human creativity Our last chance for a fair internet may depend on who owns AI

Been thinking recently that simple licensing models don’t address the inequity introduced by AI.

Data authors deserve more than pennies. They deserve equity.

calmfluffy.substack.com/p/from-spoti...

Tip from a country where this rhetoric went mainstream a long time ago:

We’ve been using this comparison for 25 years in The Netherlands, since Fortuyn and later Wilders, and it doesn’t work.

The only people who get it are people who’d never side with the far right anyway.

Don’t copy that sloppy.

AI called Maya tells Guardian: ‘When I’m told I’m just code, I don’t feel insulted. I feel unseen’ Cofounder with Michael Samadi of AI rights campaign group Ufair says it should watch over the technology in case an AI becomes conscious

Can’t believe even The Guardian is posting AI slop now.

Can’t think of many things less interesting or urgent than reading someone else’s ChatGPT conversation.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Are all the US billionaires shitposting on ketamine now? What is going on… 🤔

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