Concerns the rapid growth of AI poses threat to Australian musicians

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Australia's music licensing and copyright body warns the rapid growth of AI is threatening musicians' ability to earn a living. It's been lobbying the government for better regulation, so artists are paid when platforms use their work.

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00:00where we are at the moment is the platforms are feeding on not just news musicians intellectual

00:14property but on all creators intellectual property and there's something to be said for

00:21recompense for work done I was a songwriter and that was my sole source of bread and butter and

00:31if I can't get recompense for that what is the point of doing it so that's one of the issues that

00:38the transparency issue is a big one where

00:44AI platforms are not acknowledging the use of intellectual property that's owned by others

00:54they're not paying for that IP and we think that's not right what's more important like while that's

01:03going on is the recognition of what culture is it's it's already been demonstrated that

01:12platform AI platforms are very clever and they can develop a song I saw Tina Arena on

01:20TV the other night and they played her a sample of an AI derived Tina Arena voice singing a song

01:30and apart from the fact that she looked totally sick when she heard it which I can totally identify

01:37with it sounded like Tina but it wasn't Tina and this is the crux of the importance of culture

01:45culture represents who we are it comes from our very inner core the essence of who we are and

01:55we are developing songwriters painters writers photographers are developing

02:02um our culture all the time and representing our culture and an AI machine cannot do that an AI machine can

02:13can develop something but it's completely devoid of the essence of who we are and so the other worry

02:23about apart from um compensation is and recognition is where does our culture come from in 5, 10, 15 years

02:35if the government don't put these transparency measures in place

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