No need to wonder: "AI-generated songs on Apple Music and Spotify breach copyright, says music label UMG" https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/12/ai-generated-songs/
To be fair to the creators whose IP powers this generative AI, I think it's worth noting that model makers continue to expect to build their wealth on others' IP with no consequences: https://www.billboard.com/pro/universal-music-asks-spotify-a...
> Some of these songs are AI-generated covers of existing songs [...] Chatbots might use entire phrases, sentences, or more, from human authors. Similarly, music bots might replicate both music and lyrics from human artists
There is "learning" proper, as having assimilated the important elements of the experience (allowing to use those principles for further creation), and there is "copying".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ronson#Lawsuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Sweet_Symphony#Credits_...
Is this not what record labels do?
> Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal
> A scandal erupted in 2005 regarding Sony BMG's implementation of copy protection measures on about 22 million CDs. When inserted into a computer, the CDs installed one of two pieces of software that provided a form of digital rights management (DRM) by modifying the operating system to interfere with CD copying. Neither program could easily be uninstalled, and they created vulnerabilities that were exploited by unrelated malware. One of the programs would install and "phone home" with reports on the user's private listening habits, even if the user refused its end-user license agreement (EULA), while the other was not mentioned in the EULA at all. Both programs contained code from several pieces of copylefted free software in an apparent infringement of copyright, and configured the operating system to hide the software's existence, leading to both programs being classified as rootkits.
> Sony BMG initially denied that the rootkits were harmful. It then released an uninstaller for one of the programs that merely made the program's files visible while also installing additional software that could not be easily removed, collected an email address from the user and introduced further security vulnerabilities.
> Following public outcry, government investigations and class-action lawsuits in 2005 and 2006, Sony BMG partially addressed the scandal with consumer settlements, a recall of about 10% of the affected CDs and the suspension of CD copy-protection efforts in early 2007.