The Government of the UK wants to move Full of steam forward on Great plans Use and build AI across the country, but not all march to the rhythm of their drum. On Monday, a group of 1,000 musicians released a “quiet album”, in protest Planned changes to the Copyright Law – Changes that artists say will make it easier to train AI on copyright, without licensing (nor payments).
Album – under the title “Is this what we want?” -The Songs of Kate Bush, Contemporary Classic Composers Max Richter and Thomas Hewitt Jones, and Imogen Heap, among others, with an attachment to writing in accordance Hundreds moreIncluding big names like Annie Lennox, Damon Albar, Billy Ocean, The Clash, Mystery Jets, Yusuf / Cat Stevens, Riz Ahmed, Tori Amos and Hans Zimmer.
But this is not the band AID 2. Part, and not a collection of music.
Instead, the artists have compiled footage of empty studios and space for performance – a symbolic account of what they believe will be the influence of the planned changes in the author’s rights.
“You can hear my cats move around,” Hewitt Jones described his contribution to the album. “In my studio I have two cats that bother me all day when I work.”
In order to put a blunt point on this, the titles 12 songs that make up the album describe the message: “The British government must not legalize the theft of music to use AI companies.”
The album is the latest move in the UK (there are Similar protests in progress In other markets like the US) to draw attention to the question of how copyright is resolved in AI training.
Ed Newton-Rex, who organized the project, led a bigger campaign against AI training without licensing.
This is a position that picked up a couple among artists who are scared of teasing AI. AND request It has now been signed by more than 47,000 writers, visual artists, actors and others in the creative industry, and almost 10,000 and the figures have been reported in just five weeks since the British government has published its great AI strategy.
Newton-Rex said he also “led a non-profit organization in AI last year where we certified by companies that you know, basically do not enchant and train on great work without approval.”
Newton-Rex arrived to advocate for artists dealing with both sides. Classically dressed as a composer, he later built a startup-not just any startup, but a platform of musical composition based on Ai called Jukedeck, which (yes) let people bypass themselves using copyrights creating their own. His loving tone (where he raped and pierced the virtues of using AI to write music) Won the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield competition in 2015. Jukedeck was at the end gained ticticwhere he worked on music services for a while.
After several years in other technological companies such as Snap and stability, Newton-Rex returns to consider how to build a future without burning the past. He thinks of the idea with a rather interesting lookout: now he lives in the bay area (his wife is Alice Newton-Rex, VP products on Whatsapp).
The release of the album comes directly in front of the planned changes in the Copyright Law in the UK, in short, to encourage more AI activities and get more companies to set up and work from the UK, the Government proposes to allow these training models to use the work of artists without approval or payment .
Artists who don’t want their work to be used will have to proactively “turn off” If they do not want their work to include.
Newton-Rex, however, believes that this effectively creates a losing situation for artists, since there is no method of exclusion, or any clear way to monitor which certain material is brought into any AI system.
“We know that the exclusion schemes are simply not taken over,” he said. “This will only give 90, 95% of people ai companies. It’s without a doubt.”
Decision? Produce work in other markets that could be better protection for this, musicians say. Hewitt Jones-Koji threw a working keyboard at the port of Kent for a personal protest (after that, he corrupted, spoiled, he told him to think about markets like Switzerland for the distribution of his music in the future.
But the rock and the hard place of the port of Kent are nothing compared to the Wild West of the Internet.
“We have been told for decades to share our work on the network, because it is good to present. But now the companies AI and, incredibly, the governments are turning and saying,” Well, put it on the net for free … “, said Newton- Rex. Numerous artists have contacted me to say that is what they do. “
Or not to work, as is the case.
The album will be widely released on music platforms sometime on Tuesday, the organizers said, and any donation or revenue from playing, will go into charity to the musician.