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Paul McCartney joins music industry protest against AI with silent track (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 points 12 hours ago (7 children)

Don't most artists, except a few already wealthy ones like Paul, make basically nothing on record sales and streaming?

AI can't do live performances, yet.

[–] asRomeBurns1979@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I was watching the new David Attenborough show here in the UK Kingdom and I realised that all the orchestral work that is done to align with moments on screen will probably be AI soon. The tech is defo there already and it’s an easy way to cut budget. A shame.

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[+] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com -50 points 14 hours ago (20 children)

It suggests that if AI companies unfairly exploit musicians’ intellectual property to train their generative AI models, the creative ecosystem will be wrecked and original music silenced.

I kind of disagree with this.

There may be less people making music when money is their main motivator. But there will still be people making music.

Maybe we will lose low effort artists but gain great music by passionate people.

I’m not a musician, but these protests are going to be completely ineffective.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 22 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I think what it's saying is that if AI is what starts making money, the music industry will exploit the hell out of that.

Imagine making millions of dollars, from a band that doesn't exist, that you created, that you keep all money from their sales.

What would be your motivator to pay human artists? Why sign any?

[–] Blemgo@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What would be your motivator to pay human artists? Why sign any?

I mean, the internet has given artists a way to spread their works and profit off them without any major record labels. So what artists will lose by that are exploitative companies whose only benefit is that your music will be sold by major retailers as physical CDs or Downloads.

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

But what about live performances?

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