Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, Pearl Jam and 200 artists protest against artificial intelligence

Artists say AI ‘will start a race to the bottom that will degrade the value of our work’

The Artist Rights Alliance (ARA) has published an open letter critical of artificial intelligence signed by more than 200 music artists, including Pearl Jam, Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello and Frank’s Legacy Sinatra. In the letter, the artists ask AI developers, tech companies, digital music platforms and services to stop using AI to “harm and devalue the rights of human artists.”

“If used irresponsibly, AI poses an enormous threat to our ability to protect our privacy, our identities, our music and our livelihoods,” the open letter reads.

She claims that some of the “larger and more powerful” companies (not identified in the letter) are using artists’ work without permission to train AI models, with the goal of replacing human artists with AI-created content.

Signatories to the ARA’s open letter say they recognize the potential of AI to advance human creativity when used responsibly, but also argue that replacing artists with generative AI would “substantially dilute the royalty pool” paid to artists, which could be “catastrophic” for many. musicians, artists and composers who work to support themselves.

In the letter, the artists say that unbridled AI will unleash a race to the bottom that will degrade the value of their work and prevent them from being fairly compensated.

“This attack on human creativity must be stopped,” they write. “We must protect ourselves from the predatory use of AI to steal the voices and images of professional artists, violate the rights of creators, and destroy the music ecosystem.”

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Source: Terra

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