Ed Barton

VP Gaming @moonbugkids. Formerly COO @PlayMoshiKids, Co-Founder @curiscope. @WIRED Innovation Fellow.

[Ed Barton @ed_barton]

Biggest story in music

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

I spent a bit of time using Udio, and it turns out a bunch of its output closely resembles copyrighted music.

- Melodies & chords sometimes closely resemble famous songs
- Some output closely resembles specific artists’ sound/style
- I could generate copyrighted lyrics for most bands I tried

This raises serious questions about what it was trained on.

Here’s what I got when I prompted for music by a band that rhymes with fabba, and entered the Dancing Queen lyrics. The tune on ‘we can jive’ is pretty much identical to the original.

(Also see transcriptions: left is the original, right is Udio, both transposed to C. That phrase is very similar.)

🧵with more examples👇 (and more detail in my write-up in @musicbizworld, linked further down)

[Ed Barton @ed_barton]

@_jacksmith Surely not real 👀

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@KelwynLooi Coming back with receipts 😂

[Charlie Holtz @charlieholtz]

David Attenborough is now narrating my life

Here's a GPT-4-vision + @elevenlabs python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth:

[Ed Barton @ed_barton]

@GeekDadGamer 👀

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@sdw None of my lightning cables work, they all break

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@KelwynLooi @TPickardDev 😬

[Sos "Wishlist Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @Sosowski]

A chart showing how much you have to pay Unity for your mobile game, depending no your average per-install revenue.

The existance of the black color on this chart is the BIG problem here.

Do people who came up with this pricing scheme don't know how to use Excel?

[Ed Barton @ed_barton]

@JustinPBarnett …there are a bunch more scenarios than this specific one that makes sense for you

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@andybudd Tesla indicators don’t have an on/off state, they are problematic

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@Ankaman616 Unbelievable CV

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@Jon_Finkel @ShaanVP

[Zach Klein @zachklein]

I spent seven years building a kid/ed-tech product and one critical thing I learned about the industry is this...

No matter what they signal, most parents will only pay for one thing: Babysitting. The more guilt-free, the more valuable.

[Ed Barton @ed_barton]

@eshear I'd 100% download a car

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@keithgrimes

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@luiscvega @NikMilanovic Drop express. This is the checkout now

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@ChampionsLeague Phil Jones

[Ed Barton @ed_barton]

@OxUInnovation @OxfordSBS So Oxford is so special that the normal notions of equity ownership do not apply to you?

To look at the binary notion of whether or not a startup receives money from any investor is entirely missing the point

[Ed Barton @ed_barton]

$42,000 a month for the API because Elon LOLs

[MTA @MTA]

The MTA provides service info in real time, 24/7.

We do this through https://t.co/8rwbuwle0p, our apps, email & text alerts, and, until recently, Twitter.

We've loved getting to know you On Here, but we don't love not knowing if we can to communicate with you each day. 🧵

[Rhianna Pratchett 🧙🏻‍♀️ @rhipratchett]

Today we celebrated the life of my friend, Tanya Laird. There were tears, there were laughs, there were stormtroopers. And we ended on an impromptu rendition of Let it Go, which felt appropriate when saying goodbye to our musical-loving T-bird. GNU Tanya Laird. Mind how you go.