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
    1•1 year ago

    @indieterminacy@lemmy.ml @yuu

    > Oh I’ve seen this and I’m glad this is a thing; not exactly reselling old vinyls, but the fact underground artists are able to release new/old stuff in vinyl format with wonderfully-production made with the heart instead of solely profit in mind.

    Alas from at least 5 years the major labels block booked a lot of the LP printing presses for reissues, making it impossible for independent artists to get a pressing without roughly a 9 month lag.

    • Yuu Yin
      1•1 year ago

      Alas from at least 5 years the major labels block booked a lot of the LP printing presses for reissues, making it impossible for independent artists to get a pressing without roughly a 9 month lag.

      I see. In the case I mentioned, what I see is underground artists with underground labels since the beginning now partnering up with new underground labels who got the rights someway for reissuing, or releasing unreleased content.