'The Human Artistry Campaign officially launched on Thursday at SXSW in Austin, backed by a list of over 40 founding major music and entertainment organizations including the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Recording Academy, the Music Artist Coalition, SAG-AFTRA, the Songwriters of North America and the National Music Publishers Association.

The organization’s call comes at an unprecedented time for the development of AI. While no tool has proven capable of spewing out a fully-formed Grammy-worthy pop song yet, the concept is growing fast. AI songwriting tools like Soundful and Boomy give users melodies and beats to use for songs in seconds at the push of a button and chatbots can be tasked with writing songs in the stylings of an artist of their choosing. Meanwhile AI voice cloning software is getting closer to replicating celebrity voices, with ridiculous AI-generated Biden speeches going viral on TikTok.

“There is so much potential with AI. But it also presents risks to our creative community,” Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, said in a statement. “It’s crucial that we get this right early on so we don’t risk losing the artistic magic that only humans can create.”

The campaign acknowledged that AI will be useful in helping with creative expression, but it wants to center all advancements around human creators. With its launch, the group established several principles about ethical use of AI based around potential issues like copyright infringement, transparency and government policy.

“Human artistry is irreplicable. Recent developments in AI are remarkable, but we have seen the costs before of rushing heedlessly forward without real thought or respect for law and rights,” RIAA chairman and CEO Mitch Glazier said.

Among its seven listed principles, the campaign said that use of both copyrighted material and the voice and likeness of creators must require licenses and authorization. It also called on state and federal governments to ensure they wouldn’t create any exemptions for AI developers to skirt copyright, and that AI work itself wouldn’t get copyright protection if the work didn’t involve human creation. The campaign’s advocacy points along with its full list of participating companies and a petition are available on its website.'

rollingstone.com/music/music-news/music-groups-campaign-ai-replacing-artists-1234697985

they all need to be lined up and executed

IT'S OVER

unplug the OpenAI servers

did you even read?

Yes

F*** them, they just wanna protect their money. Artists are gonna make art no matter what AI is doing

I saw another Twitter thread that said AI doesn’t use copyrighted material since it’s literally scanning the internet coming up with new things. So what is this

1st page

inevitable

MUSIC!

The voice cloning AI's need you to feed acapellas of songs to them so there is definitely copyright infringement taking place.

@KodakWhite

So after NFTs, AI is the next big years-long grift huh

We in the worst era of technology since the 1500s

music!

let me follow you twin what’s your page

@Key thoughts?

holup

“That AI work itself wouldn’t get copyright protection if the work didn’t involve human creation”

Interesting.

Maybe i just embrace AI its pointless to fight it. Its a Djinn that will realise your dreams but at what cost ? We don't know yet. Maybe its just a great assistant like in the movies. I hope it will help the creativity in artist and raise the standard. Though my biggest fear is just saturation.

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