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Paul McCartney joins music industry protest against AI with silent track (www.theguardian.com)
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Former Beatle and artists including Sam Fender, Kate Bush and Hans Zimmer record silent LP Is This What We Want

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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It's more than that. genAI can't create music out of the ether. It has to be trained first, meaning it basically "listens" to a shit ton of music before it can generate any music. That means:

  1. Its music will be 100% derivative with no true creativity at all. Do you just want a mishmash of all pre-existing music forever?

  2. most importantly, the artists whose music the genAI was trained on were likely not compensated at all for that training. So not only is the music ecosystem going to be inundated with AI slop, but we've stolen from working musicians to do it.