The subject still requires regulations, but the Universal Music Group has already made moves and alerts the industry and companies like Spotify and Apple
The increase in songs and compositions generated by artificial intelligence has recently raised concern in sectors of the music industry. O Universal Music Group (UMG), which works with great artists such as The Weeknd, Taylor Swift, Drake It is Lady Gaganow has a new challenge which is to protect them from being targeted.
According to Financial Times (via CNN), the group, which controls a third of the global music market, would have asked the main streams like Spotify and Apple Music to take measures to block artificial intelligence from having access to the contents of their customers so that they will not be copied .
“We will not hesitate to take measures to protect our rights, as well as that of our artists”, would have said one of the emails sent by UMG to the platforms, reports the publication.
It is the record company’s commercial responsibility to prevent its artists from being harmed by unauthorized use of their mixes, lyrics and melody. A source close to the case, consulted by the Financial Times, would have said that the concern comes from the fact that artificial intelligence tools are trained from the intellectual property of popular artists:
“Majority [das inteligências artificiais] are trained in popular songs. You could say: write a song that has Taylor Swift-like lyrics but Bruno Mars-style vocals and Harry Styles themes. The result you get about this is derived from the fact that the AIs are trained on the artists’ intellectual property.”
The UMP claims that AI is a strong threat to the music industry. Since there is a possibility of going astray with this market, which involves billions of dollars in revenue every year, in addition to the artistic work of musicians.
AI generated music
Recently, the industry has experienced an invasion of compositions generated from Artificial Intelligence services. Like the hypothetical lost album of Oasis with songs that the group “could” have released if it hadn’t disbanded in 2009. A YouTube page has also appeared that publishes versions recreated by AI where they apply Kanye West’s voice to songs by The Weeknd, for example, who is part of UMG .
Source: Rollingstone
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