Posted on 01/26/2025 8:50:44 PM PST by Angelino97
Paul McCartney urged the British government not to make a change to copyright laws that he says could let artificial intelligence companies rip off artists.
The government is consulting on whether to let tech firms use copyrighted material to help train artificial intelligence models unless the creators explicitly opt-out.
McCartney told CBS News partner BBC that would make it harder for artists to retain control of their work and undermine Britain's creative industries.
"You get young guys, girls, coming up, and they write a beautiful song, and they don't own it, and they don't have anything to do with it. And anyone who wants can just rip it off," the 82-year-old former Beatle said in an interview to be broadcast Sunday. An extract was released Saturday by the BBC.
"The truth is, the money's going somewhere. When it gets on the streaming platforms, somebody is getting it, and it should be the person who created it. It shouldn't be some tech giant somewhere," he said.
Britain's center-left Labour Party government says it wants to make the U.K. a world leader in AI. In December, it announced a consultation into how copyright law can "enable creators and right holders to exercise control over, and seek remuneration for, the use of their works for AI training" while also ensuring "AI developers have easy access to a broad range of high-quality creative content."
Publishers, artists' organizations and media companies, including The Associated Press, have banded together as the Creative Rights in AI Coalition to oppose weakening copyright protections.
"We're the people, you're the government. You're supposed to protect us. That's your job," McCartney said. "So you know, if you're putting through a bill, make sure you protect the creative thinkers, the creative artists, or you're not going to have them."
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Will the new laws also protect the paperback writers?
There won’t be artists once the process of creating music has been perfected in AI.
Hmmm, perhaps a blockchain for songs...
There won’t be artists once the process of creating music has been perfected in AI.
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But will AI live the life experience needed to write The Blues?
Get help from The Taxman.
For me, one of the impressive things about any work of art is that a human being, through talent and effort, made it. Art is an expression of the human experience and spirit, one of the ways the image of God is evident in us.
I have no interest in AI “art”, no matter how “good” it is.
It is going to be primarily economics that will drive this.
It will be universally a cotton candy level of songs, due to the lacking experience, but every song will sound as pleasant as another.
AI is really something
in the way
it fools me!
AI-generated art, music, prose, poetry HAS NO SOUL. NO HUMANITY.
Without thought, inspiration, feeling, love, suffering, angst, happiness, sorrow, etc. the result is not art, not music, etc.
It might be engaging, satisfying, even beautiful, BUT IT HAS NO SOUL.
I can appreciate AI generated content for what it is, but it not the same as if a human being had done it.
I bet this is happening for “music”.
Heck they gotta be better then what the music companies are releasing!
I saw a video where AI is creating short videos by the hundreds in seconds using ChatGPT and Canva which are free software. Use ChatGPT to create a topic and a question and an answer and Canva to import the results to a template for a Youtube or TikTok video. Add in a background be it static or video, add or delete sound.
Easy to edit video and sound using a slider then you apply and you have a video, 1 or hundreds which you then upload to Youtube and or TikTok. They can each make money with ads. One person was claiming they made over $20,000 a month. Think of these AI generated videos as the webpage ad farms you come across when you do a search.
He shouldn’t worry. AI will only suck out his soul and then reproduce a just legally enough knock off off his voice and writing style to make millions.
Maybe he should just let it be.
One of my favorite songs.
"Ram", or "Band on the Run"?
I listen to oldies.
Old everything.
Music creation has sucked for decades.
Not just artists. Human work everywhere. And already swiped.
Since he’s such a liberal clown, remind him of the saying.... ‘Share and share alike. ‘
I mean...’Imagine no possessions’
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