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Nobody is safe from celebrity AI deepfakes
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Nobody is safe from celebrity AI deepfakes

On Instagram and other social media platforms, AI-generated imagery of celebrities is everywhere. A recent fake post depicting actress Mia Goth shows how it can spiral into confusion. In hindsight, the post on Instagram should have raised more red flags. The image purported to show actress Mia Goth, just days after filing for divorce from actor and filmmaker Shia LaBeouf, posing in a T-shirt with a pointed message: MY EX IS MY BIG

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Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training
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Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training

A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to help build its Gemini artificial intelligence models, in “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history”. The case, filed in federal court in New York, has been brought by three publishers – Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier – and bestselling American author Scott Turow. The publishers argue that Google repurposed books that had b…

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MANAGEMENT OF AI-GENERATED MUSIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The recent dramatic improvement of artificial intelligence (AI) in creative fields has transformed the production of music, raising complicated issues of intellectual property (IP) rights. In this paper, the author discusses the legal and ethical issues surrounding the management of AI-generated music in the current legal context. It starts by describing the concept of AI-generated music and the technology of deep-learning and neural network that makes this kind of autonomous composition possible. An analysis of…

MANAGEMENT OF AI-GENERATED MUSIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
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Musicians must embrace ‘unstoppable force’ of AI, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart urges

The Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart has said artificial intelligence is an “unstoppable force”, and musicians and other artists should bow to the inevitable and license their music to generative AI platforms. These platforms use artificial intelligence to analyse existing songs and tracks, using that knowledge to generate completely new ones as prompted by a user. For example, someone could ask the AI platform to generate a song about a boozy night out in the style of a Britpop band, and it would draw on song…

Musicians must embrace ‘unstoppable force’ of AI, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart urges
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Visual Arts are the Only Arts with Morals: Generative AI and Aural Arts

E]verybody who creates for a living should be in code red." 1 In early April 2023, TikTok user Ghostwriter977 posted a piece titled "Heart on My Sleeve" (stylized in lowercase) that seemed to be sung by Drake and The Weeknd. 2 However, as the song gained massive popularity, Drake and The Weeknd's recording label released a chilling statement: the voices in the song, which had convinced millions of listeners, were, in fact, not Drake or The Weeknd, but an artificially generated imitation made from recordings of D…

Visual Arts are the Only Arts with Morals: Generative AI and Aural Arts
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Revising research practices for singing data collection

Abstract As AI voice synthesis enables increasingly sophisticated vocal deepfakes and non-consensual voice cloning, the governance, licensing and access of singing datasets has become an urgent concern for data-contributors, who face significant harms from downstream and non-consensual usage of their singing data. Singing datasets are foundational to the development of high fidelity voice AI synthesis, yet current data collection practices pose challenges: data-contributors have an event-centric contribution to…

Revising research practices for singing data collection
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UK actors vote to refuse to be digitally scanned in pushback against AI

Actors have voted to refuse digital scanning to prevent their likeness being used by artificial intelligence in a pushback against AI in the arts. Members of the performing arts union Equity were asked if they would refuse to be scanned while on set, a common practice in which actors’ likeness is captured for future use – with 99% voting in favour of the move. The general secretary, Paul Fleming, said: “Artificial intelligence is a generation-defining challenge. And for the first time in a generation, Equity’s film

UK actors vote to refuse to be digitally scanned in pushback against AI