The prankster dropped a song allegedly on behalf of Drake and The Weeknd
Artificial intelligence has also entered the creative professions and is now composing songs, generating images, even recording vocals. And the texts are his specialty. However, this raises a number of copyright issues that, at least for now, are nobody’s business.
He was also part of the reason the actors’ guild in the USA, which includes a number of Hollywood stars such as Matt Damon, for example, announced a strike. Exactly at midnight on the night of Friday, the actor who transformed into Jason Bourne left the premiere of the film “Oppenheimer”, in which he plays Leslie Groves.
The actors are protesting for a number of things, including a fairer distribution of revenue. They are in conflict with the studio association. A big problem for artists is that companies try to get them to create digital copies of them, using artificial intelligence for this purpose. In this way, the studios could, with one payment, use the actors in several films. Another problem is with the so-called voice actors. They voice movies and series. Artists want assurances that as technology advances, they won’t be replaced by line-spewing robots. Screenwriters, on the other hand, are against the progress of programs like ChatGPT trying to flesh out basic ideas and even develop them into complete storylines.
A number of other creators are protesting AI-generated photos. Since he can’t hold a camera, just taking details from different photographers shots.
So, for example, if you ask him to generate a photo of the Colosseum or the Trevi Fountain, he will steal the work of several people who will not receive a penny. On the other hand, if you’re using paid AI, you’ll be paying the programmers who trained it. Well, not for their copyright, but for you to use their product. And the photographers whose photos are used won’t even know they’ve been ripped off, because the algorithms are trained not to take a large enough percentage that someone would be able to guess their shot.
And while photographs involve multiple frames, vocals are already being successfully recorded in music. So it turned out that at the beginning of April, the rapper Drake “made a duet” with his colleague The Weeknd for the song Heart on My Sleeve. The two artists, of course, have nothing to do with the song. It was uploaded to a number of platforms by the user ghostwriter977. It was never made clear whether the text was written by the shadow writer, as his nickname translates, or by an artificial intelligence. But the vocals were the work of the algorithms. The record company behind Drake immediately asked for the track to be removed, and most platforms did. But they ran into an unexpected problem on YouTube. The site has a system that detects copyright and automatically prevents content from being uploaded. In the case of the song Heart on My Sleeve, however, the company has no copyright and has to report any link it finds. Interestingly, only a week before the track appeared, Drake had posted how someone had created a cover of Ice Spice’s Munch (Feelin’ U) using artificial intelligence. “This is the last straw,” wrote the performer.
And the misunderstood Sir Paul McCartney had to deny that he would use artificial intelligence, to record the last song written by the Beatles. He had announced that, with the help of software, the voice of John Lennon, who was killed in 1980, would be reproduced. It later emerged that the legendary bassist and vocalist had in mind that an old recording of Lennon’s voice would be used. It would simply be de-noised and improved. “Nothing is created artificially or synthetically. It’s all real and we’re all playing. We have cleared some existing records – a process that has been going on for years,” McCartney announced in a tweet.
And while with songs the performers, even if they are not the authors of the lyrics and music, always manage to make money – for example with a tour, the situation with paintings is more complicated. Artificial intelligence can paint, but if it is commissioned to create a beautiful landscape of the Vitosha sunset, can the client make money by selling the painting? Naturally, he would first have to hire someone to repaint it and pay him for the service. But the work itself, the choice of colors, the point of view – for example from the “Kniazhevo” district, will all be ideas of the person who set the parameters. Thus, he is the contracting authority. There is currently no obstacle to sell the work. Popular NFT images are even created, which are then traded against the Ether cryptocurrency. However, prices are far from man-made – rarely exceeding the equivalent of $200.
2023-07-15 20:00:00
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