Map/Media and creative/Wave 7

Attention and curation under content glut

Generated supply outruns human attention, so platform curation, anti-fraud filtering and discovery become the binding step.

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Facts

Lane: Media and creative
Wave: 7 of 12 (build order, not a date)
Needs: 11 boxes all the way back through hard links
Unlocks: 0 boxes downstream through hard links
Cluster: Around licensed generative media
Found by: bottleneck shift lens

Evidence as of October 2026

AI tracks passed 50% of Deezer's daily uploads (about 90k a day) in June 2026, yet in April they drew only 1-3% of streams, and 85% of those streams were flagged fraudulent (company figures).

Around it

Needs · 3

Music generationcapability · Built today
Image generationcapability · Built today
Video generation with soundcapability · Built today

Unlocks · 0

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Brakes

This box works against

Licensed generative mediastage · Emerging
Paying the people who make knowledgecapability · Speculative
AI-native entertainmentstage · Speculative
AI-native application revenuecapability · Built today

Loops and off-ramps

Capex pullbackoff-ramp · slowed
Taiwan chip disruptionoff-ramp · slowed
Power shortfalloff-ramp · slowed
Training data ruled outoff-ramp · slowed

Openings researchers' judgement, October 2026 scouting

Crowding3.5 Lab overlap4 Small-team fit3.5 Buyer today3 Research openness3.5

Depth: light
Players: Deezer (detector licensed to Sacem; free scanner); Spotify (75M spam tracks removed, DDEX labels); YouTube; Ircam Amplify; Tuned Global; Beatdapp ($17M, prior knowledge); OpenAI provenance; C2PA
Wedge: Upstream AI-content and stream-fraud screening for distributors, collecting societies and app marketplaces (not the big platforms, which build their own), priced per item ingested and robust to new generators. startup