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Diamanda Galás. Photographed by Logan White

Issue 435

May 2020

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Essay

Authorship under automation

In the first essay of a short series exploring Bandcamp’s ban on AI-generated music, Vicki Bennett argues that the platform’s decision rests on the belief in a stable binary between computer and human made music