CEO of Fairly Trained / Composer. Working towards fairer training data practices in generative AI.
Ed Newton-Rex
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Suno - a company that trained on "essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open Internet", and argues it does not need to pay to do so - is now valued at $5.4 billion.
They will pay for GPUs, and for engineers…
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It is career suicide for artists not to upload to YouTube. Arguing that doing so allows Google to train AI on their videos/music - AI that competes with them - is outrageous. Whatever the Ts & Cs say.
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This is disgusting behaviour from Google.
It is using its monopoly power to try to force creatives to let it train on their work.
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… but not, apparently, for the music they use - other people's music - without which their models would not work.
I know lots of musicians who will be upset. I am with them.
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why does the uk government's 'ai jobcentre in your pocket' output copyrighted song lyrics?
has it been trained on them?
