The models that make AI songs were trained on real musicians' copyrighted works, without permission.
It's kinda shitty to steal someone's works, then use them to build a machine to also steal their jobs.
It's kinda shitty to steal someone's works, then use them to build a machine to also steal their jobs.
People take ideas from other people all the time, my view is if machines do it, it isn't much of a different thing.
If you own an apple tree, and (as is common in some countries) a child leans over your fence to grab an apple, you don't lose sleepless nights over it. But if a corporation comes over and leans over with its 10 meter long robotic arm and takes all your apples then it's a disaster.
Scale matters. People don't care for small "losses" because we want other people to prosper. But AI steals from everyone and brings prosperity only to Amodei and Altman.
You act like it's an zero sum game, it is not.