GANGgajang frontman Mark Callagan has a warning for anyone who will listen: musicians are being exposed by tech companies as they train artificial intelligence systems on massive libraries of music without compensating the artists who created it.
“It is the biggest copyright theft in history, because they have stolen absolutely everything,” he told the National Account.
The “Sounds of Then (This is Australia)” singer told the National Account’s Archie Milligan a key solution would be a system allowing artists to opt-in for their work being used by AI: both the input (how a model is trained) and the output (when their sound is replicated).
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