‘We are truly doomed’: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard despair at AI clone appearing on Spotify
Australian psych-rockers, who removed their music from Spotify in protest against the streaming service, lament the appearance of AI band King Lizard Wizard..
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The fucking audacity to make money off of AI generated content at all is already baffling to me lmao
The whole point of AI music is to turn Music from an art form into a product, from something that is unique and personal and has meaning to people to something that can be mass produced and consumed as a product.
Then half of the modern world is baffling to you. Do you feel the same way about coin-operated player pianos? Or kaleidoscope projectors?
People will seek to make money from anything they can.
You aren’t even trying. Both of your examples require human interaction and imagination at the time of creation.
Player pianos aren’t black boxes of plagiarism and kaleidoscopes don’t show amalgams of other people’s works.
also when is the last time a human being encountered either of these
A player piano (sometime last week, two of my closer casual friends have them. we all collect musical instruments) or a kaleidoscope (we have one in our kids' toys bucket)
well then!
Does anyone have an internet archive link? The guardian website seems to be freaking out on me
Guardian is really battening the hatches, but firefox reader mode works for me. I'm all for putting their original investigative reporting behind the wall, but when it's basically a retelling of someone's social media post, I'm less understanding and think it's kind of shortsighted.
https://archive.is/IfoGQ
Thank you! The notification about subscribing was glitching out for me.
How can Spotify/whoever "wrote" these claim royalties and deny them to gizz, who should have a writing credit for the clone's use of the original song, and still acknowledge that AI can hold no copyright
Great, it's doing real music with actual instruments now? Fuck me.