Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj submit letter to AI developers to honor artists’ rights
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj submit letter to AI developers to honor artists’ rights

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Stevie Wonder, Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, Peter Frampton, Katy Perry, Smokey Robinson and J Balvin are just some of the over 200 names featured on a new open letter submitted by the Artist Rights Alliance non-profit, calling on artificial intelligence tech companies, developers, platforms, digital music services and platforms to stop using AI “to infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists,” according to the letter. Those include using preexisting work to train AI models — without permissions — in an attempt to replace artists and therefore “substantially dilute the royalty pools that are paid out to artists.” “This assault on human creativity must be stopped,” the letter reads. “We must protect against the predatory use of AI to steal professional artists’ voices and likenesses, violate creators’ rights, and destroy the music ecosystem.” The full letter is available here. Last month, Tennessee became the first state to pass legislation designed to protect songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.

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Art meets invasion: Inside the face-off with AI
6 months ago

Art meets invasion: Inside the face-off with AI

Hindustan Times  

Work on it began a bit before that point, in the 1980s, when a prolific musician named David Cope was tasked with creating the music for an opera. In it, the artists urge AI developers, technology companies, platforms and digital music services to refrain from employing AI in ways that undermine and diminish the rights of human creators. Earlier this …

Opinion: As AI is embraced, what happens to the artists whose work was stolen to build it?
6 months ago

Opinion: As AI is embraced, what happens to the artists whose work was stolen to build it?

LA Times  

OpenAI announced Media Manager, a tool to be released next year that purportedly will help writers and other creators control how their work is used. Amid the hype surrounding Apple’s new deal with OpenAI, one issue has been largely papered over: The AI company’s foundational models are, and have always been, built atop the theft of creative professionals’ work. But …

Will artists lead the revolution against AI?
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Will artists lead the revolution against AI?

Live Mint  

I doubt there is any form of love comparable to what an artist has for her art. On to Mint’s best journalism from this week: Executives of India’s largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services huddled up in Abu Dhabi last week to discuss the company’s future. Mint’s startup and new economy editor Ranjani Raghavan along with Sneha Shah take a …

Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work
1 year, 3 months ago

Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Kelly McKernan’s acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The Nashville-based McKernan, 37, who creates both fine art and digital illustrations, soon learned that companies were feeding artwork into AI systems used to “train” image-generators — something that once sounded like a weird sci-fi …

Hozier would consider striking over AI threat to music industry
1 year, 4 months ago

Hozier would consider striking over AI threat to music industry

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Irish singer Hozier has said he would consider striking over the threat of …

Creative Dystopia: Google, Universal Studios to work together and make deepfake, AI-gen music
1 year, 4 months ago

Creative Dystopia: Google, Universal Studios to work together and make deepfake, AI-gen music

Firstpost  

Music labels all around the world seem to be warming up to the idea of AI generated music being a great way to make money. Google and Universal Music are set to sign a deal that would let Universal monetise Google’s deepfake tech to make money Google and Universal Music are currently engaged in discussions to secure licenses for the …

AI Could Usher in a New Era of Music. Will It Suck?
1 year, 6 months ago

AI Could Usher in a New Era of Music. Will It Suck?

Wired  

Michael Sayman has worked at Facebook, Google, Roblox, and Twitter. “Now there’s nearly a million streams on the site.” Sayman’s site is AI Hits. With its notable fealty to the real thing, the Drake-mimicking “Heart on My Sleeve” became the first “hit” of the AI music era, and various versions of it dominate AI Hits. “And how does that even …

Artists fight AI programs that copy their styles
1 year, 8 months ago

Artists fight AI programs that copy their styles

The Hindu  

Artists outraged by artificial intelligence that copies in seconds the styles they have sacrificed years to develop are waging battle online and in court. It would be wrong for artists to "get a couple of cents while the company gets millions" of dollars, added Ortiz, whose resume includes working for Marvel Studios. Stability AI founder and chief executive Emad Mostaque …

AI tools can create new images, but who is the real artist?
1 year, 11 months ago

AI tools can create new images, but who is the real artist?

Firstpost  

Now artificial intelligence systems are doing the same, training themselves on a vast collection of digitized artworks to produce new images you can conjure in seconds from a smartphone app Countless artists have taken inspiration from “The Starry Night” since Vincent Van Gogh painted the swirling scene in 1889. Another lawsuit in a U.S. federal court in San Francisco describes …

As AI-generated art takes off, who really owns it?
2 years, 3 months ago

As AI-generated art takes off, who really owns it?

The Hindu  

At first glance, the series of warped clown faces in a collision of primary colours appears to be the work of a painter - with oily brushstrokes and smudged backgrounds the typical hallmarks. Some AI art generation tools trawl images and mimic styles by using rights-protected works to create a new piece of art, raising fears among artists of digital …

Songs like Nirvana’s, novels like Kerouac’s: How AI is getting artistic
3 years, 8 months ago

Songs like Nirvana’s, novels like Kerouac’s: How AI is getting artistic

Hindustan Times  

Kurt Cobain would probably have enjoyed it. The Nirvana frontman who died at the height of his fame in 1994, would probably have listened to an artificial intelligence program’s attempt to generate a new song based on his music. Meanwhile at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Paris, an AI music composer called Flow Machines reworked classic arrangements and even remixed Beethoven’s …

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