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Is This What We Want?

Is This What We Want? is a earth science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Is This What We Want? rather than just read about it. In short: Is This What We Want? is an album by various artists released on 25 February 2025 through Virgin Music Group. It consists of ambient noise recorded in recording studios, protesting the use of unlicensed copyrighted work to train artificial intelligence.

Key takeaways

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Reproduce the core statement of Is This What We Want? from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Is This What We Want? is an album by various artists released on 25 February 2025 through Virgin Music Group. It consists of ambient noise recorded in recording studios, protesting the use of unlicensed copyrighted work to train artificial intelligence. The track titles form the sentence "The British Government must not legalise music theft to benefit AI companies". Profits from the album go toward the UK charity Help Musicians.

Background Rapid progress in AI technology, constituting an AI boom, was brought to public attention in the early 2020s by text-to-image models such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, which were able to generate complex images that convincingly resembled human-made artworks. The proliferation of such image generation algorithms coincided with the release of GPT-3 and development of GPT-4, advanced large language models which produce highly convincing text. These transformer-based models designed to create new content from prompts are collectively called generative artificial intelligence, and they require vast sets of training data. This data often consists of text, images, and other media scraped from the web, prompting concerns that the AI products may violate intellectual property rights. Suno AI and Udio, two AI startups whose products generate music recordings following user-submitted prompts, were sued in 2024 by Sony Music, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group, who alleged that the companies used copyrighted recordings in their training data without authorization. In December 2024, the UK government announced a consultation on copyright and AI, outlining a preferred approach that would see the introduction of a data mining copyright exception with a rights reservation package for rights holders. In the months following the announcement of the consultation, a number of prominent musicians warned of the threat it posed to musicians, including Paul McCartney and Elton John.

Content The standard version of Is This What We Want? consists of 12 tracks, each uncredited. The tracks consist of ambient noise recorded in recording studios. The track titles form the sentence "The British Government must not legalise music theft to benefit AI companies". The album suggests that original music will be silenced if AI companies exploit musicians' intellectual property. It was organised by the British composer Ed Newton-Rex, who had previously worked at Stable Diffusion's parent company, Stability AI. For the vinyl edition, released in November 2025, Paul McCartney recorded an additional track as the B-side, comprising tape hiss and "indeterminate clattering".

Chart performance Is This What We Want? debuted at number 38 on the UK Albums Downloads Chart.

Track listing A limited edition 12" vinyl album was released and distributed by The state51 Conspiracy. It features a bonus track of an empty studio by Paul McCartney.

Artists/Group/Members 1000 musicians credited as co-writers including influential artists like Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Tori Amos, Annie Lennox, Pet Shop Boys, Billy Ocean, the Clash, Ed O'Brien, Dan Smith, Jamiroquai, Mystery Jets, Hans Zimmer, Imogen Heap, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Max Richter, the King's Singers, the Sixteen, John Rutter, and James MacMillan. For the vinyl edition, released in November 2025, Paul McCartney recorded an additional track as the B-side, comprising tape hiss and "indeterminate clattering".

See also, Sleepify by Vulfpeck, an entirely silent album 4'33", a John Cage composition which instructs the performers to remain silent Music and artificial intelligence

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External links Official website

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Is This What We Want?

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Is This What We Want? claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In earth science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Is This What We Want? before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Is This What We Want? ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Is This What We Want?

In research: Is This What We Want? appears in earth science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Is This What We Want? in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Is This What We Want? is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2025 collaborative albums, Adem Ilhan albums, Amelia Warner albums, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Is This What We Want? outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Is This What We Want? in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Is This What We Want? means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Is This What We Want? in simple terms?

Why does Is This What We Want? matter?

Because it connects several earth science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Is This What We Want??

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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