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> "hundred" -- not a million but a hundred -- that were copy-pasted from Genius at some point. To be fair, they can probably only confirm incorrect lyrics. Cor

• smt88 7y ago
  > Correct ones would look the exact same. Unlikely. Official lyrics (printed in CD inserts, for example) often have punctuation mistakes, or they have no punctuation at all. Unofficial lyrics can have the same words while still differing in punctuation, line breaks, capitalization, or spelling (since most languages have multiple ways to spell the same word -- color/colour, for example). All the tiny variations could easily create a distinct fingerprint for each source of lyrics.
  • reaperducer 7y ago
    Official ≠ correct. See: Van Halen, R.E.M., and a million other bands.
    • stochastic_monk 7y ago
      As an aside, Converge’s official lyrics include the phrase “soul survivors”. While it is almost certainly an error, it’s felt poetic to me, as if implying that suffering is an inevitable consequence of consciousness.
• crazygringo 7y ago
  The article says it uses apostrophe fingerprinting... and a lot of songs have lots of apostrophes. Assuming just 4 apostrophes per song, there's only a 1/16 chance of it being an accidental match... but given that it's already quite unlikely for any text (including lyrics) to contain both types of apostrophes, practically speaking it's probably closer to a 1/100 or 1/1000 chance of false positives. They should be able to accurately confirm whether hundreds of thousands of songs were taken from Genius, without any difficulty.
  • zeven7 7y ago
    I'm surprised Google wasn't already normalizing apostrophes and other punctuation anyway. I'm sure they will be now.