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• Spotify is cracking down on AI slop, but prompters can still post their generated music if they build a personal brand around it
• Meta’s latest feature uses Instagram content for AI fodder. SAG-AFTRA and CAA aren’t happy.

  Meta is facing backlash after announcing a new AI image tool that draws from content on public Instagram profiles.

  
• Vine is back–and it has a zero-tolerance policy for creators using AI

  Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former multi-time CEO of Twitter, has launched "diVine," a new app that serves as both an archive of around ~500,000 videos from the original Vine, plus lets users post new content--as long as that content is six seconds or shorter, and (crucially) made by a human.

  
• Spotify has a new use for “verified” check marks: They can identify human creators

  Spotify is using Twitter-style check marks to identify creators and artists who are humans, not AI-generated characters.

  
• YouTube enters next phase of deepfake crackdown with likeness detection for celebs and journalists
• YouTube reveals its answer to the Spotify Daylist with AI-generated playlists for Premium users
• After paying out $100,000 to creators in 2025, Fairground is ready to advance AI artistry in 2026
• What would happen if you could talk directly to the recommendation algorithm? X is about to find out
• AI is trained on YouTube videos. Now we can see which ones have been used.
• Substack survey shows deep creator divides on the subject of generative AI
• Hollywood studios were claiming AdSense revenue from YouTube’s deluge of AI slop. Now what?
• YouTube shuts down “true crime” channel that was all AI lies