The movement against artificial intelligence is intensifying. After the strikes in Hollywood, it is the music industry's turn to collectively express its discontent. More than 250 artists signed an open letter this Tuesday addressed to tech companies, developers and streaming platforms against generative artificial intelligence that uses their work without permission to train models that compete with them. Among the signatories are Billie Eilish, NickiMinaj, Elvis Costello, REM, Mumford & Sons, Katy Perry, NorahJones, Nicki Minaj, Ja Rule, Jason Isbell and even Pearl Jam.
Almost all musical genres are represented. They are all members of the Artist Rights Alliance, an organization that defends the rights of artists "in the digital age". They recognize that artificial intelligence, when used intelligently, can foster creativity. Unfortunately, "some of the largest and most powerful companies are using our work to train artificial intelligence models without permission. These efforts are directly aimed at replacing the work of human artists with massive amounts of AI-created "sounds" and "images" that substantially dilute royalties. paid to artists.For many musicians, artists and songwriters just trying to make ends meet, this would be catastrophic.
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