Ask ChatGPT to write you a Beyoncé song and it will churn out something cringey – but completely convincing. Lydia Spencer-Elliott speaks to experts about the future of AI in music and the threats and opportunities it poses for songwriters

“AI goes around the internet and scrapes all of the lyrics but never provides any credits,” says Bryan-Kinns. “If an AI makes a song, gets famous, went to No 1, who would get money from them? Certainly not the people in the huge dataset of millions of songs. …

Last summer, the [UK] government set out proposals to amend copyright laws that would allow AI creators to exploit musicians’ back catalogues without permission or compensation.

    • indieterminacy@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Ive made a good side career selling lp vinyl, given how poor the contemporary state of the music industry is. The worse the state of the economy the more these old artifacts become assets of economic significant.

      Funny old world, given how these things used to be more of a casual object when the music industry was more equal and less parasitic.

      Given how Covid has decimated most musicians ability to make money, let alone the amount of recording that bigger and more established artists did during the pandemic I would hate to be a young performer.