George Butler

Firstly, very quickly, we talked about Spotify last week having this big issue with AI music artists.

Funnily enough, James, just to show the impact of this podcast, clearly the leaders of Spotify are glued to what we have to say because, incredibly, over the last few days, they have released something which is going to help people distinguish between AI and real.

Authentic.

Verified humans.

Yes, it's nice to have a verified tick.

And yes, it means people will know that they are listening to a real human if they had a question about that.

There's still the whole issue around AI tracks.

It's not case closed here.

It's a good thing to do, but it's far from a fix.

Why do you say that?

People like you, if you want to listen to real humans, I want to listen to a load of AI music.

I'll get my vinyl player out.

Thank you very much.

Okay, two final quick media stories now.

Firstly, interestingly, a famous actress, Evangeline Lilly, a Marvel star from Ant-Man, has really laid into Disney for laying off artists at Marvel Studios.

I'm going to read this quote for you.

It's quite interesting.

shame on you disney for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away why does ai get to steal our brilliance and use it to make executives rich while the artists responsible for feeding their robots go hungry disgusting to the marvel studios artists

who designed and brought to life the glory days of Marvel.

I salute you.