The British government is working on a bill that will allow developers and industries to train artificial intelligence models with the copyright covered material. If the law was applied, the creative sector would seriously risk.
Silence is the last weapon of those who no longer have a voicesays an old adage. It is therefore not surprising that on the platforms it was published by a group of 1000 musicians A “silent album”. The disc is a protest against the British government that would like to allow developers and companies to use copyright protected material to train artificial intelligence. With the new law, the artists actually would have the possibility of denying rightsyet it could be very difficult to notify thousands of suppliers their dissent, in fact they should in fact trace and explicitly ask that they do not use their material and monitor the processes far and wide on the web.
The album “Is this What We Want?“It is only the last move to turn on the spotlight on the theme. Paul McCartney has also deployed against the proposal, according to him, according to him,” creativity and artists. I’m afraid the result will be a wild world in which the copyright of the artists is not adequately protected, “explained McCartney.” The result is that young boys and girls will write beautiful songs that will no longer be theirs and Anyone who can tear them away“.
The silent album published by the artists for protest
The silent album has been supported by international artists such as Kate Bush, Imogen Heap, Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn, Billy Ocean, The Clash, Mystery Jets, Riz Ahmed, Tori Amos and Hans Zimmer. The artists loaded the recordings of empty studies and stages, a symbolic representation of what they believe will be The impact of the changes provided for by copyright law.
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The titles of the 12 tracks make up a message: “The British government must not legalize the theft of music for the benefit of artificial intelligence companies”. And Newton-Rex, Composer and mind of the project, he explained to Tech Crunch that the artists find themselves in a difficult situation, “for decades we were told to share our work online Because it is positive to make themselves known. But now artificial intelligence companies and, incredibly, governments are turning about and tell us, ‘Well, put it online for free … So now several artists are simply stopping to create and share their work. “
It is almost impossible to protect yourself. There is no method to trace which material has been used for train a model of artificial intelligence. “This simply means giving 90% or 95% of the work of people to artificial intelligence companies. This is undoubted,” added Newton-Rex.
The singer -songwriter Naomi Kimpenu He added: “We cannot be abandoned by the government and allow our work to be stolen from the profit of large technological companies”. The album will be distributed on all musical platforms starting today, Tuesday 25 February. All the donations or proceeds deriving from its reproduction will go to the beneficial body Help Musicians.
