Re:Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fak...
by bagasme on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @01:05AM
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From a CBS article:
"I think that is part of what is making it difficult for the untrained ear to differentiate between these AI-generated and non-AI generated tunes," music journalist Hattie Lindert told CBS News on Tuesday. "It's pretty convincing when there are so many Drake tracks that AI can train from."
Re:Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fak...
by eppp on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @12:19PM
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Why would it be plagiarism? There are tons of people that imitate other people's voices and sing covers of their songs. Why should this new use be different?
Re:Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fak...
by gs17 on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @04:41PM
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Already decided in court to an extent, Bette Midler won against Ford when they used an inpersonator to sing in an ad she refused to do. Voice itself is still uncopyrightable, but use of it can be considered impersonation.
Re:Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fak...
by im3w1l on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @08:29AM
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The article was confusingly written and seemed to conflate AI-generated music with fake plays (which, given that spotify pays per play is basically clickfraud).
Re:Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fak...
by humanistbot on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @10:19AM
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From the article, it reads to me that this was easy to detect because both forms of automation were used together.
Boomy is a company that lets users easily create AI generated music. Boomy registered with Spotify as a music label. Boomy users can release their songs on Spotify and get an 80% cut of the ad revenue that Spotify pays to Boomy. Spotify knows Boomy's business model and didn't take action when they were just letting people create and release AI generated music under their own names.
It looks like a bunch of Boomy users were publishing to Spotify, then creating a bunch of free ad-based accounts to automatically listen to their own tracks 24/7 and get their cut of the ad revenue. I did some casual searching on TikTok and Youtube videos about how to make money with Boomy and Spotify, and there are tons of videos telling you how to do this. It's tricky because Boomy isn't technically responsible for the clickfraud, but they do enable it to such an extent that 7% of their catalog was apparently used in this way.
"I think that is part of what is making it difficult for the untrained ear to differentiate between these AI-generated and non-AI generated tunes," music journalist Hattie Lindert told CBS News on Tuesday. "It's pretty convincing when there are so many Drake tracks that AI can train from."
IMO that's another example of plagiarism, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Boomy is a company that lets users easily create AI generated music. Boomy registered with Spotify as a music label. Boomy users can release their songs on Spotify and get an 80% cut of the ad revenue that Spotify pays to Boomy. Spotify knows Boomy's business model and didn't take action when they were just letting people create and release AI generated music under their own names.
It looks like a bunch of Boomy users were publishing to Spotify, then creating a bunch of free ad-based accounts to automatically listen to their own tracks 24/7 and get their cut of the ad revenue. I did some casual searching on TikTok and Youtube videos about how to make money with Boomy and Spotify, and there are tons of videos telling you how to do this. It's tricky because Boomy isn't technically responsible for the clickfraud, but they do enable it to such an extent that 7% of their catalog was apparently used in this way.