Prime Beatle Paul McCartney has spoken out against the slowly creeping advance of AI in music and his fears that – if left unchecked by new legislation – it’s going to take over.
McCartney’s comments come amidst rising concern about the use of existing content to train AI models. Doing so is not only a questionable use of intellectual property owned by its creators, but something which also ultimately – by facilitating copies and clones to be automatically created – makes the process of humans making music (or writing words or making pictures) a pointless waste of time.
And while notable hold-outs include The New York Times, who have already taken legal action against AI heavyweights such as Open AI – the creators of Chat GPT – and Microsoft, their deep-pocketed backers, other vast repositories of human knowledge and creativity, such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation have already signed away the rights to use …