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We must band together and protect the record companies! All music generation must go through Universal and Warner's proprietary app. Death to training without paying the stockholders, death to open-source.
All hail censorship, all hail Google.
I personally know indie musicians who are popular enough to have had their music scraped and used as training data, in part because they are forced to use platforms like Spotify, YouTube, etc. to eke out a living. And then people have had the audacity to present AI slop versions of music using their vocals to them, expecting them to be happy about it.
Were they paid for their decades of work? No. Were they given the opportunity to opt out? No. This isn't The Man trying to capitalize upon an open and equitable system. This is The Man stealing from the poors and each other, and pretending they didn't (or worse, acting like their victimhood is somehow equal to everyone else's).
And to add even further insult to injury, these companies have tricked many of those same poors that these plagiarism engines are tools to "level the playing field" against people who have spent years honing their craft. Why, the very nerve of those people using their time to become experts! /s
Even better: how about death to training until you pay the original artists fairly and equitably, or allow them to opt out? AI should not be treated as some inevitable thief that we must all work around.
Fair points but the current lawsuits arent there to solve any of them. The lawsuit against Udio essentially gave ownership of the app to UMG and Warner. No artists were payed. The app still exists, except you have to pay to download the song and they put extra copyrights on every song generated now.
It's insanely transparent imo, they want a monopoly on generated music as well as the regular stuff. I wish artists had a chance.
Even worst is that UMG will probably start pushing AI music once the dust settles because there's more profit in it, especially if they own it the moment it's made and can dictate the terms with a simple ToS.
The only things I despise more than a predator company are other predator companies
Edit: grammar
All the current lawsuits kind of suck because its all copyright juggernaut vs big AI companies. It feels mostly lose lose for us but only one of the two outcomes kneecaps open source and community driven options.
Another frustrating bit is that it's win win for big AI. Even if they lose, it just means a cheap fine while getting a massive moat because of the new cost of entry.