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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Podcasts is gone — and YouTube Music can’t replace it  The Verge Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Podcasts Shutting Down, Content Producers Urged To Migrate To YouTube Music  Deadline Source link

The entire YouTube Music team is out of a job after going on strike last year. Some of the workers were lobbying for support for their union at an Austin City Council meeting. A Google spokesperson said the move was a regular contract termination. The entire YouTube Music team is out of a job as tensions rise at Google parent company, Alphabet. The Alphabet Workers Union, which represents workers at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, said Google laid off the YouTube Music team on Friday. Some of… Source link

A union representing contractors for YouTube Music claims that Google cut the workers’ contract after they went on a prolonged strike.  The Alphabet Workers Union-CWA, which represents the contractors, said the team consisted of moderators employed by Google contractor Cognizant in Austin, Texas, that was responsible for approving music content for YouTube Music. In a statement emailed to The Verge, Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini maintained the decision to cut the team did not lie… Source link

The National Labor Relations Board ruled that Google’s refusal to bargain with a group of unionized YouTube Music contractors is illegal. The three-member panel decided that despite denials by Google, which owns YouTube Music, and its subcontractor Cognizant, the two are, in fact, joint employers of the Austin-based workers who perform data-related tasks, like finding errors in its charts algorithm.  “At all material times, Respondents Cognizant and Google have codetermined the essential… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]How YouTube is helping Filipino schoolchildren discover a love for music  The Keyword | Google Product and Technology News Source link

In the early 2000s and even before that, people were able to recognise popular artists or bands just by listening to their songs, but with the recent advancement in the music industry, particularly with regard to autotuning, most listeners can’t guess who sang unless they view the song description. Now, Google is reportedly working on smart Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based bot MusicLM that can dish out catchy music beats with just text description. Google AI bot makes use of 280,000 hours… Source link

As AI slowly creeps it way into every facet of our digital lives — from essay writing to conversations with therapists to the generation of original art — it’s the least bit surprising that artificial intelligence would also take a step into music. It’s also not surprising that tech giant Google would be the first major player on the scene. The company is reportedly building an AI bot that can create “original” music(Opens in a new window) from both text and sound prompts — users… Source link

Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Google announced it developed an AI bot that generates music based on text descriptions. The tech will not be released to the public due to existing technical issues and risks. The tech giant is ramping up its AI efforts after issuing a “code red” following the explosion of ChatGPT. In the artificial intelligence race, Google announced it developed a bot that creates music based on text prompts — but don’t expect to be able to use it any time soon. In a Source link

2023 seems to be the year of AI and automation in content creation. Starting with the ChatGPT, which disrupted the world with its human-dialect-like responses, Google’s latest research on an AI-powered music production tool is here, and it’s called MusicLM. Just like ChatGPT, MusicLM can answer your queries, however, only in the form of music. Google MusicLM can instantly create music based on a text-based query in no time. What’s even more interesting is the AI can even read images… Source link