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Atlantic music training database investigation
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The Atlantic's investigation uncovered four datasets containing millions of songs used to train AI music models, which reporter Alex Reisner made publicly searchable. Two datasets contain 12 million and 9 million tracks respectively, while two smaller sets hold over 100,000 songs each; Google and Stability AI have confirmed using them in research.
- Four music datasets identified for AI training, ranging from 100,000+ to 12 million tracks
- Reporter Alex Reisner created searchable public database of the training music
- Google and Stability AI confirmed downloading and using the datasets in research papers
- Datasets downloaded thousands of times; exact usage by other companies unknown
- Free Music Archive among sources included in the training data collections