Artificial Intelligence: Singers from The Cure and Radiohead join petition against AI

Well-known musicians are protesting against the unauthorized use of their music with a petition artificial intelligence (AI) to train. The protest letter has so far been signed by more than 13,500 people, including Abba singer Björn Ulvaeus, Robert Smith of The Cure and the band members of Radiohead.

“Using creative works without a license to train generative AI poses a significant and unfair threat to the livelihoods of the people behind these works,” the letter says. Writers such as Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro and actors Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon and Rosario Dawson have also died
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AI “dehumanizes” art

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in the music and film industries software to produce new pieces of music and lyrics in the style of well-known artists. Even deceased film stars can be brought back to the screen, extras can be generated for crowd scenes or scripts can be written more quickly. To do this, it is necessary to train the AI ​​models with large amounts of human-created works.

“When AI companies talk about training data, they dehumanize it. “It’s about people’s works, their lyrics, their art, their music,” British composer Ed Newton-Rex told the newspaper The Guardian. Newton-Rex started the petition.

Class Action Lawsuit Against ChatGPT

Last year, well-known writers, including the author of game of Thrones-Books, George RR Martin, has already sued the company OpenAI for copyright infringement. You blame the developer of ChatGPT alleges that her books were used to train the very successful text-based AI without her consent.

The “heart” of the large language models used to train ChatGPT is based on “systematic theft on a large scale,” the class action lawsuit said. OpenAI claims to have trained its language models with texts available online – although exactly which websites and texts were used is not disclosed.

Some creatives cooperate with AI companies

In the US state of California, where large parts of the US film and music industry as well as important AI companies are based, Governor Gavin Newsom recently stopped a law on AI regulation. The legislative initiative was previously supported by several Hollywood stars such as Pedro Pascal, Jane Fonda and Mark Hamill.

Other creatives, on the other hand, are working with AI companies: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced last week a partnership with actor Casey Affleck and the horror film studio Blumhouse Productions to test AI software.