Entertainment Industry
AI-Generated Music I Told You This Was Going To Happen: The Musician’s Biggest Threat (Rick Beato, YouTube, 2024):
AI-generated music: even though a well-trained ear can currently distinguish between human and AI generated music, “in six months I probably won’t be able to tell the difference.” Why buy music when you can have AI generate exactly the kind of music you want to hear?
[7:19] “What happens to the musicians? Who makes the money? Does the studio make it? Is anyone getting paid for the stuff it's trained on? How do you even know what it's trained on? I went and testified in front of Congress for one of these, you know, information things. It was in the seventh of nine things, and they've done nothing about it. They don't even know what to do about it. I don't know what there can be done about it but it's going to replace people.”
World's biggest music labels sue over AI copyright (Natalie Sherman, BBC News, 2024):
The world's biggest record labels are suing two artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups over alleged copyright violation in a potentially landmark case. Firms including Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Records say Suno and Udio have committed copyright infringement on an ‘almost unimaginable scale’.
They claim the pair's software steals music to ‘spit out’ similar work and ask for compensation of $150,000 (£118,200) per work.
Motion Picture and Television Production
Will A.I. Upend White-Collar Work? Consider the Hollywood Editor. (Noam Scheiber, NYT, 2024):
In a dozen interviews with editors and other Hollywood craftspeople, almost all worried that A.I. had either begun displacing them or could soon do so. [...]
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At a town-hall meeting to discuss the contract — which covers not just editors but also thousands of makeup artists, prop makers, set designers, lighting technicians and camera operators — the union’s president advised members to make the best of it. [...]
But to Mr. Moore and his fellow Cassandras, the failure to secure stronger A.I. protections bodes poorly not only for them but for workers across the country. “If a 70,000-member union like IATSE can’t protect workers, what does it mean for everybody else?” he said, referring to the number of craftspeople covered under two major contracts. “For society going forward?”