News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules. Parent comment

Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by codedokode on Thursday March 13, 2025 @08:43PM (#43358616)
What AI companies are doing (downloading pirated music and training models) is completely unfair. It takes lot of money (everything related to music is expensive), talent and work to record a good song and what AI companies do is just grab millions of songs for free and call it "fair use". If their developers are so smart and talented why don't they simply compose and record the music by themselves?

> not only a work, but even the ideas and knowledge contained in that work

AI models reproduce existing audio tracks when asked, although in a distorted and low-quality form.

Also it will be funny to observe how US government will try to ignore violating copyright for AI while issuing ridiculous fines for torrenting a movie by ordinary citizens.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by LexGray on Friday March 14, 2025 @01:12AM (#43359772)
Everything in tech is unfair. Music teachers replaced by apps and videos. Audio engineers replaced by apps. Albums manufacturing and music stores replaced by digital downloads. Custom instruments replaced by digital soundboards. Trained vocalists replaced by auto-tune. AI is just the final blip of squeezing humans out of music.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by antihipocrat on Friday March 14, 2025 @08:01AM (#43361781)
Not just music, models are trained on all types of art forms that have been created by humans across every medium and businesses are now choosing to use content from AI rather than pay an artist.

Breakout success can still be achieved from humans who create brand new art styles that can't yet be replicated by an AI. These artists will reap the rewards until all of these works are added to the subsequent AI training models.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by ForTheKidz on Friday March 14, 2025 @02:25AM (#43360095)
> What AI companies are doing (downloading pirated music and training models) is completely unfair.

We work in an industry built on leveraging unfairness. Expecting otherwise on this forum is very odd.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by FirmwareBurner on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:28AM (#43360616)
>We work in an industry built on leveraging unfairness. Expecting otherwise on this forum is very odd.

Yet this forum is very quick to criticize other people and other industries for unfairness.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by ForTheKidz on Friday March 14, 2025 @10:02AM (#43362735)
Is it? From my perspective it seems like the folks here mostly are part of the problem, even if there is diversity of opinions.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by oasisaimlessly on Friday March 14, 2025 @05:01AM (#43360755)
> AI models reproduce existing audio tracks when asked, although in a distorted and low-quality form.

So can my wife. Who should I call to have her taken away?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by tremon on Friday March 14, 2025 @08:17AM (#43361899)
The RIAA.
[ Parent | on HN ]