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AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Hits include country songs and a Dutch anti-refugee anthem, both entirely made without human composition

The Guardian - US

"This is exactly what artists have been worried about – it's theft dressed up as competition": Who is behind The Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated band that blew up the internet?

A 'spokesperson' for The Velvet Sundown that gave a statement to Rolling Stone earlier this week has now revealed that he's not affiliated with group

MusicRadar

British musicians release a silent album to protest plans to let AI use their work

A new album called “Is This What We Want?”

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UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI

Consultation suggests opt-out scheme for creatives who don’t want their work used by Google, OpenAI and others

The Guardian - UK

Kate Bush joins campaign against AI using artists’ work without permission

Singer-songwriter follows Paul McCartney and others in speaking out as ministers consider opt-out system

The Guardian - UK

Can AI create art? A Sotheby's auction tests the question

The auction house will sell a painting created by a humanoid robot.

Fortune

ABBA's Bjorn Among 11,000 Artists Issuing AI Warning

Thousands of artists including ABBA singer Bjorn Ulvaeus, Hollywood actress Julianne Moore and Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro have signed a statement warning about the unlicensed use of artificial intelligence.

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Kevin Bacon, Julianne Moore, Thom Yorke, and 10K+ creators sign warning against AI use of their work

Celebrities sign petition warning about AI use of their work.

TechRadar

Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning

Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals’ work to train AI models

The Guardian - UK

We must be wary of the power of AI

Letters: Robert Skidelsky is concerned about the surveillance potential or AI, while Brian Reffin Smith is worried about its capacity to hijack culture, and Michael Heaton warns that it relieves us of the need to think

The Guardian - UK

RIAA lawsuits against Suno, Udio and Perplexity's broken pledges show the perils of AI's 'move fast, break sh-t' culture

The RIAA sues Sonu and Udio, and Perplexity gets caught seemingly violating its own pledge to not scrape websites that have opted out of scraping—both stories that show AI has a consent problem.

Fortune

Copyright issues at OpenAI and other AI startups are ramping up

New legislation may boost the amount of litigation.

Fortune

Stability AI's music generator can now edit and transform your samples and produce full-length, structured tracks

Now with the ability to process audio uploaded by the user, Stable Audio 2.0 is edging closer to becoming a revolutionary tool for music-makers

MusicRadar

AI firms treat any "publicly available" data as fair game

The confusing term helps make the broad claims of data-hungry companies sound reasonable.

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"Companies worth billions of dollars are training generative AI models on creators’ works without permission": Stable Audio head resigns in protest over "exploitative" practices used in training AI music generator

"Training AI models in this way is, to me, wrong", says former Stable Audio VP Ed Newton-Rex

The Guardian - UK

John Legend and Sia among singers to trial AI versions of voices with YouTube

Google-owned video platform opens up Dream Track experiment to produce 30-second soundtracks

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