matdryhurst (@matdryhurst) — Twitter Score 133 out of 1000

Matdryhurst is an artist, musician and technological researcher who co-founded Spawning, an AI consent layer, and works closely with Holly Herndon on music, AI and creator rights. Matdryhurst's Twitter Score is 133 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #4,605 (top 1%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.

Matdryhurst co-founded Spawning in 2022, building the Have I Been Trained? tool, which allows artists to search AI training datasets and submit opt-out requests. The project attracted $3 million in venture capital investment. Matdryhurst also co-founded Interdependence and has been an early adopter and practitioner of blockchain technologies, including NFTs and social tokens, with a focus on cultural production in a decentralized internet.

Matdryhurst co-developed Holly+, an AI music generator that won the 2022 Ars Electronica STARTS prize for digital art. The Holly+ project planned to use ERC-20 VOICE tokens within a DAO structure for voting on the minting of NFTs of derivative works. Matdryhurst was formerly an advisor to Holly+ and was formerly affiliated with Saga and Spawn.

Matdryhurst has published 44,225 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 179 accounts, with 549 total mentions.

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