An A.I. Songwriting Experiment: Humans Against the Machine

NYT Technology Saturday 03 October 2026, 09:00 UTC By Matt Richtel 1 min read

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Five humans convened for a weekend to create new music from scratch. Could they do better than A.I.? Could you even tell the difference?

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An Italian Jesuit priest once turned one of the Amazon's most feared fish into an unlikely source of income for an isolated community. Giovanni Gallo organised the preservation and export of about 12,000 piranhas from Brazil's Marajó Island, with the proceeds helping fund bridges, a community dock, a cemetery and an airstrip, according to Brazilian academic research and recent reports by CNN Brasil. His wider work eventually led to the creation of the Museu do Marajó, a museum dedicated to...

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An A.I. Songwriting Experiment: Humans Against the Machine

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