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Sweden Launches World's First AI Music License for Training

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The Spin

Techno-skeptic narrative

The machine apocalypse of human creativity begins with a licensing contract. Sweden's new AI music license legitimizes AI's colonization of copyrighted songs, transforming sacred artistic expression into algorithmic fodder. This isn't progress — it's surrender. We're witnessing the systematic replacement of human emotion, struggle, and genius with soulless pattern-mimicking. Every licensed song feeds the beast that will ultimately devour music's humanity.

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Techno-optimist narrative

Sweden's AI music license heralds humanity's most audacious creative revolution — not machine domination, but symbiotic transcendence. Artists like Holly Herndon and Lee Gamble are wielding AI as the ultimate collaging tool, transforming algorithmic failures into otherworldly beauty. This isn't the death of human creativity — it's metamorphosis. We're witnessing music evolve beyond biological limitations into realms of impossible sonic architecture.

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Metaculus Prediction

There is a 67% chance that by 2050, at least 25% of Year-End Billboard Hot 100 songs will be primarily composed by AI, according to the Metaculus prediction community.