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YouTube Asks Permission Before Training AI on Artists’ Music
By Movieguide® Contributor
YouTube wants to jump into AI music deals with several major record labels.
Per The Verge, “According to the Financial Times, the Google-owned video platform is offering to pay Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Records ‘lump sums of cash’ in exchange for licensing their songs to legally train its AI music tools.”
If the deals go through, YouTube plans to “license music from ‘dozens’ of artists according to the report, which will instead be used to train new AI tools that YouTube is planning to launch later this year.”
While this is an innovative step forward for the technology, how creative can artificial intelligence really be when creating music?
Country singer Walker Hayes knows AI could “outwrite me any day” but still believes creativity belongs to humans, not technology.
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With the increased use of artificial intelligence, Hayes wondered, “when you take the necessity for humans to create out of the world, I don’t know if I want to see what the world looks like then. I think that’s when we’re all just sitting and not moving, and we only talk, and we’re just lying in a bed. So, I got to tell you, it weirds me out.”
However, because of his faith in God, Hayes knows that creativity is an inextricable part of humanity.
“But I think God made us creative. I think every human is creative. We created AI. That’s how creative we are. It’s a mind-bender when you think about it,” he said.
Regardless of what YouTube ends up accomplishing with its new endeavors, both the artist and the labels “will likely take some convincing.”
According to Bloomberg, “Sony Music Group, one of the world’s biggest record labels, warned artificial intelligence companies and music streaming platforms not to use the company’s content without explicit permission.”
Sony Music Group sent a letter to over 700 different AI companies warning them that any “unauthorized use” of SMG content would result in the artist and label being “compensated” for their work.
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