If we support the exploitation of people’s work for training without permission, we implicitly support the unfair destruction of the creative industries.
The law will replace the state's statutory right of publicity law with regulations against AI deep fakes and give local artists protection over their voices for the first time.
Legislators first proposed regulating AI in 2021, although it was ChatGPT and the “Heart on My Sleeve” controversy that made many execs pay closer attention to the tech’s potential impact.
"What I see is a great deal of anxiety and stress levels, and I don’t know how we fix it," says one radio executive.
The NMPA president and CEO talked TikTok, The MLC, AI and more at his AIMP Grammy week speech.
"Our voices and likenesses are... not mere digital kibble for a machine to duplicate without consent," Lainey Wilson told members of Congress
The ad bears the names of nearly 300 artists, songwriters and other creators who support the No AI FRAUD Act introduced in the U.S. House on Jan. 10.
More than a third of European songwriters surveyed have used AI – but almost two-thirds are concerned about it.
The ugly incident is a sign of things to come, experts say, as AI tools make pornographic deepfakes easier to create and tech platforms scale back content moderation.
The Berlin-based music company hopes a partnership with a school in Munich will help get it there.
