{"id":47259,"date":"2025-07-21T09:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=47259"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:33:14","slug":"geniuses-at-twitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2025\/07\/21\/geniuses-at-twitch.html","title":{"rendered":"Geniuses at Twitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is essentially no recourse when a bot at Twitch believes that this audio:<\/p>\n

is precisely the same as this audio:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-07-20-06-53-44-10My-recording-10.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

The first clip is from my LinkNYC Radio. The second is something called Fairy Tale Fantasies in a Musical Slumber<\/em> by Dreamy Slumberz. I don’t know anything about the latter work but I doubt if “Dreamy Slumberz” or a reasonable human with passable hearing capacities would believe that it sounds anything like the LinkNYC excerpt. I don’t know how the innards of these things really work but I do know that no humans are involved in making these accusations of stolen copyrighted content, and these decisions are usually final. This is why I gave up posting my piano music videos. I would get robo messages accusing me of being anyone from Glenn Gould to Michael Ponti because apparently my playing was close enough to theirs? I never made side-by-side comparisons of my playing versus any of the recorded pianists I was accused of being but I just assumed that similarity of playing was why the bot was triggered. As this example from LinkNYC and Dreamy Slumberz indicates, that algorithm can be awfully off.<\/p>\n

This email cites “multiple instances of copyrighted audio” by pointing to the exact same audio clip three times, making me three times the criminal for a crime I did not commit.<\/p>\n

\"LinkNYC

LinkNYC is the new Dreamy Slumberz<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is essentially no recourse when a bot at Twitch believes that this audio: is precisely the same as this audio: The first clip is from my LinkNYC Radio. The second is something called Fairy Tale Fantasies in a Musical Slumber by Dreamy Slumberz. I don’t know anything about the latter work but I doubt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-181-2","category-shit-doesnt-work","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-cif","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47264,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47259\/revisions\/47264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}