The UK government is moving ahead with a plan to attract more AI companies in this sector through changes in copyright law, which will allow developers to train AI models on artists’ content on the Internet – without permission or payment – Until the creators constantly “opt out”. Not everyone is marching for the same beat, though.
On Monday, a group of 1,000 musicians released a “silent album”, protests Planned changeAlbum – Title “Is this What We Want?” – Kate Bush, Emojen Heip, and contemporary classical musicians Max Richter and Thomas Hevit Jones are tracks among others. It also includes co-writing credit Hundreds of peopleWith big names such as Annie Lenox, Damon Alborn, Billy Ocean, The Clash, Mystery Jets, Yusuf / Cat Stevens, Riz Ahmed, Tori Amos and Hans Zimar.
But this band aid is not part 2. And this is not a collection of music. Instead, the artists have kept the recording of empty studios and performance places together – which they believe that there will be a symbolic representation of changes in the planned copyright law.
“You can hear my cats around here and there,” how did Hewit Jones describe her contribution to the album. “My studio has two cats that bother me all day when working.”
To place an even more blunt point on this, the title of 12 tracks that give a message to the album: “The British government should not legalize music theft to benefit AI companies.”
This album is just the latest step in the UK to pay attention to the issue of how copyright is being handled in AI training. Similar protest Are Defeat In other markets like America, highlighting a global anxiety among artists.
Ed Newton-Rax, who organized the project, is leading a large campaign against AI training without license. A Petition He has now been signed by more than 47,000 writers, visual artists, actors and others in creative industries, about 10,000 of which have signed up in the last five weeks as the UK government announced its major AI strategy.
Newton-Rax said he is “running a non-profit organization in AI last year, where we are certifying companies that basically do not scrape and train the great work without permission.”
Newton-Rax arrived to advocate the artists after batting for both sides. Classically trained as a composer, he later created an AI-based music composition platform, called Juakedac, which makes people a bypass by using copyright functions. Its attractive pitch, where he wrapped and rifed the properties of using AI to write music, Won Techcrunch Startup Battlefield Competition in 2015JukedEck was eventually Acquired by tiktokWhere he worked for some time on music services.
After many years in other technical companies such as Snap and Stability, Newton-Rax is back to consider how to build the future without burning the past. He is considering that idea from a very interesting convenience point: he now lives in the Bay Area with VP wife Alice Newton-Rax of the product in WhatsApp.
The album release comes just before the changes planned for the copyright law in the UK, which will force the artists who do not want their work to be used for AI training objectives Constant “opt out,
Newton-Rax feels that it effectively creates a defeat position for artists because there is no opt-out method in place, or which specific materials are fed in any AI system, track it. There is a clear way to be able to be able to.
“We know that opt-out plans are not yet taken,” he said. “It is going to give 90% of the work of 95% people to AI companies. This is without a doubt. ,
The solution, says that artists have to work in other markets where there may be better security for it. Hewit Jones-He threw a working keyboard in a port in Kent, which was not in protest against a person long ago (they broke it out, broke, later)-He said that he distributed his music in future To do markets like Switzerland.
But the rock of a port in Kent and the difficult space is nothing compared to the wild west of the Internet.
“We have been asked for decades to share our work online because it is good for exposure. But now AI companies and, incredibly, governments are roaming and saying, “Okay, you put it online for free …” Newton-Rax said. “So now the artist is just doing his work and shared Stoping doing it, many artists have approached me to say what they are doing.
The album will be widely posted on music platforms on Tuesday, the organizers said, and moving from any donation or playing it will go to the charity help musicians.
