Amelia Rutherford
Your Feed Is Training Data: What AI Image Generation Does With the Work You Post
Last month I ran a small test. I opened a platform-native image tool — the kind now bolted onto every social app — and typed a prompt naming a friend's illustration style.
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When AI Voice Cloning Hit Primetime: Which MBC Variety Episodes Actually Say Something
The tell came about forty minutes into the segment. A producer cued a recording, and the announcer sitting under the studio lights heard her own voice read a script she had never seen — same cadence…
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Net Proceeds: What Charity Music Festivals Actually Move
A benefit festival sells a ticket for, say, $150. By the time the cause sees money, the line on the press release reads "net proceeds." Somewhere between that $150 and the check that lands at a…
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NFC Technology and the One-Tap Wallet: What That "Chart-Eligible" Sale Actually Counts
A fan at a merch table taps their phone against a vinyl sleeve. Half a second later, a pass drops into their digital wallet, a download code resolves in the background, and — if every condition lines…
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AI Music Detection Tools Promise to Clean Up Your Playlists. Here's What They Can Actually Tell You.
A detector once told me a track on my running playlist was machine-generated. I'd seen the band play it in a basement in Oakland two years earlier — three people, one of whom broke a string.
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Stable Audio Review: A Sound Designer's Tool Wearing a Songwriter's Marketing
There is a moment that tells you what a tool is really for. With Stable Audio it came when I asked for a "moody synthwave track, full arrangement, three minutes" and got back something that started…
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Should Radio Play AI-Generated Music? The Belief That Airplay Means a Human Stood Behind It
A community station in the north of England pulled three tracks from its weekend rotation last year after a listener emailed to say the band did not appear to exist.
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