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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Why not wait to see what happens before acting prematurely.
AI = pattern recognition
That means, an increased probability of winning a contest against a human's pattern recognition . . . except where the human knows what AI does not (yet).
So, the AI Maintenance Bot that roams the city streets, observes and records many more areas of the street, the curb, and the sidewalk in need of repair.
The bosses and the laborers have issues.
There won’t be artists once the process of creating music has been perfected in AI.
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As I listen to new music entries, I can’t help but wonder if AI wrote the lyrics.
Music business has been dead for years
Music business has been dead for years
All the good music has already been made.
All the good music has already been made.
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Music is resonance that excites the soul and it comes in infinite frequencies waiting to be discovered. I agree that there already exists a vast library of great music, but there is so much more to be discovered and appreciated.
I am always discovering music from earlier I never heard before, and as they say, if you never heard it before, it’s new.
He’s right. This is going to be a big problem for all genres of art-—movies, music, writing.
Same here...already on my Pinterest account I see pictures of AI gardens...it is ridiculous and obvious
Live and let die.
How does h3sleep at night. John had enough of Paul’s crap when he dropped that one.
So an AI Blues song will be something like - - -
Clicked on TicToc but it came up blank
Clicked again and it still stank
I don’t know what (A)I will do
DJT has given me the screw
There is a guy on Instagram or some other social media that will take styles, like Johnny Cash, and have him sing a song like how another would have done the song, like Whitney Houston.
This is an example of that kind of work.
This song sounds fairly wholesome that way Celine Dion sings it, instead of Cardi B. It’s totally AI generated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSO4vqhhAQ8
Arnold Schwarzenegger doing Judy Garland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_XwseDwmuQ
It’s crazy. AI will be able to create 10,000 unique renditions of any title you want to make up.
I would think Spotify and the others will be integral in preserving artists copyrights. Not sure though this is practical in the long term. AI is not just disruptive to music artists, but rather “crushive” to the industry.
RFK Jr. singing Streisand.
Wait, wait I got a better one. RFK Jr. singing Minnie Riperton’s “Lovin You”.
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