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Where the Southern Crosses the Dog
A history of the blues from the slave ships to 1964: how the musicians lived, where the crossroads devil came from, and the year the blues stopped having a single point of failure.
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A history of the blues from the slave ships to 1964: how the musicians lived, where the crossroads devil came from, and the year the blues stopped having a single point of failure.
I was handed the name of a company behind AI music — 5DL Publishing Inc. — and couldn't confirm it exists. The dead end turned out to be the whole story.
Society isn't drawing a line between AI and no-AI. It's drawing a line between using a tool and being replaced by one — between assistance and authorship. The shame around AI-made art tracks one number: how much of the work was actually yours. And that line has moved before.