Post by cjm on Dec 10, 2023 8:28:05 GMT
Misuse of copyrighted music by AI companies 'could exploit artists'
The misuse of copyrighted music by artificial intelligence companies could exploit musicians, a former executive at a leading tech startup has warned.
The technology is trained on a huge number of existing songs, which it uses to generate music based on a text prompt.
The technology is trained on a huge number of existing songs, which it uses to generate music based on a text prompt.
Copyrighted work is already being used to train artificial intelligence models without permission, according to Ed Newton-Rex, who resigned from his role leading Stability AI's audio team because he didn't agree with the company's opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is "fair use" of the material.