Music GenAI startup sued, despite hiring artists to create their library

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5 points·sirspacey··5 comments

Even here on HN I rarely see acknowledgement for the many people in AI who have done the hard work to build legitimate training data sets.

Remember there’s not a story written that isn’t serving someone’s agenda.

Mine is to see startups like this survive one of the most brutal legal fights coming down on AI startups.

The "baby" of legitimate AI companies, doing the "right thing" (as far as anybody can have or come to some agreement as to what that is) ...

... is going to get thrown out with the "bathwater" of a sweeping tide of beligerent lawsuits by diverse incumbents avid to fend off innovation, I am afraid.-

This company is not being sued.

This is a standard letter that Sony has been sending to AI companies as a result of a new AI data mining opt out in the EU Ai Act.

https://completemusicupdate.com/sony-music-tells-700-ai-comp...

I was not aware of this, thank you for the clarification!

A good lesson this - even in a space I’m reasonably well informed, I got swept up into assuming I understood the context without researching it thoroughly first. I’ll do better on the next one.

To be fair, the tweets are very misleading and the person tweeting has possible deliberately cropped the letter to support their narrative. I suspect the tweets were made in the hope of a little free publicity.

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