About two hundred mainly American artists have called on tech companies not to train AI models on copyrighted music. That would threaten artists' incomes.
The artists under the banner of Artists Rights Alliance want tech companies to promise not to create tools that replace human work in music and thus threaten artists' incomes. “These efforts are directly aimed at replacing the work of human artists with massive amounts of AI-created 'sounds' and 'visuals' that could significantly reduce the royalties paid to artists.”
Below the artists who have signed include old artists such as Bob Marley and Frank Sinatra but also Smokey Robinson and Billie Eilish. Many of the artists mentioned are not or hardly known in the Benelux. There are already initiatives to provide AI models with training data for which permission has been given under the name Fairly Trained. Companies train many AI models on material taken from the internet without prior permission. There will probably be court rulings that determine is that allowed?">or will that continue to be allowed.
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