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Wait until AI starts fighting for citizenship.
Not just in music industry but also Voice acting industry 😂
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ChatGPT is an AI that will, on some topics, intentionally give the wrong answers.
Totally. It doesn’t do fact checking at all and doesn’t recognize the difference.
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This AI stuff is going to be such a headache.
We need intelligence in the world before they introduce artificial intelligence!! I don’t see that yet.
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Most modern-day contemporary music sounds virtually indistinguishable from the next song but when deceased artists of our time start putting out “new” records, this really opens up a floodgate of questions of legality.
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seems to me one fair solution to the problem of using a recognized voice might be… when you may a song with AI and you say “mix Elton John with Radiohead” that both artists get a cut of profits ….
Not that baffling. AI is using already published content, remixing it and presenting it to the user as ‘original’. There are obvious copyright infringement issues and the music industry is trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube so to speak but it’s just too late. As always, record companies are being reactive rather than proactively working with AI developing companies to ensure ownership rights are respected.
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I love Michelle. Been reading her column for thirty years.
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Gimme the 1960s and 1970s music any day. Real musicians, real instruments, real voices, real lyrics that move you. Lionel knows.
Love the Thundercats.
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The music publishing and recording industry might have the Sampling cases of the 1980s and 1990s as well as Streaming and Torrent cases as copyright-related court precedents, but how’s applicable is that to movie or tv studios wrt AI used to create deepfakes?
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Wow that is buck wild and crazy what this AI stuff meaning if any one of those entertainers ever pass away they could still be here singing and making songs just through the AI though 🤔
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The only way this would work is if the licensed music never made a sound, as in you can’t even listen to what you paid for.
AI came after pictures and drawings, now its going after music lol
Imagine this scenario… Disney using AI to create a movie… writing a script, creating characters, creating the movie using code, and writing and producing a soundtrack with songs sang by unique AI vocals that does not copy any artist.
Disney creates a work of art for entertainment in a matter of minutes not paying one single human. This change is coming faster than one thinks.
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In the age of ai tools people will make your voice with copyright labeling because Ai can be trained by gathering data of your voice
Kan Broadcasting (רשת כאן) recently put out a song they wrote, with vocals produced by AI. They trained the AI on many instances of the voices of long dead Mitzrachi singer Ofra Haza and Zohar Agov (עפרה חזה וזוהר ארגוב) to produce the song Kan Leolam (כאן לעולם). This is sort of disgusting because Kan was part of the group of national broadcaster who refused to play Mitzrachi music. And now, they are using the voices of dead Mitzrachim to push their agenda? Thankfully, the song sound flat, lacking all the richness of the real voices of these singers. ❤ GOD Bless Everyone
There’s no way to differentiate between AI music & a guy with a sampler or DAW. Beside it’s the imperfection or not precise parts of music that give it a human quality which is largely what people like about music. Others may prefer or favor more of an electronic vibe in their music. Does not have to be an either or choice does it? Writers, creators, performers all deserve to be compensated if another profits from their work & refuses to share. ❤ GOD Bless Everyone
I suppose the dearth of musicality in popular music makes it particularly simple for AI to replicate
It’s pretty easy to replicate songs that are Autotuned, which is the majority of music these days. It may help you are an authentic singer and live performer you may be safe.
Yes, there are some issues about TikTok and other apps. But spelling out the facts and concerns seems a necessary first step to policy changes. If the issue is them collecting our data, but our own government does the same, and seems to want to do more. If they’re afraid of propaganda, then maybe Faux is a better place to start.