<story><title>Universal Music Asks Streaming Services to Block AI Access to Its Songs</title><url>https://variety.com/2023/music/news/universal-music-streaming-services-block-ai-1235582612/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumballindie</author><text>&amp;gt; Its going to happen and AI is going to learn lyrics and how to create music, its inevitable.&lt;p&gt;Why is everyone in AI so open to stealing people&amp;#x27;s work and why do y&amp;#x27;all think &amp;quot;ai&amp;quot; is something with a mind of its own that just runs about and does things? It&amp;#x27;s a software product and the companies owning it must play by the rules. Period.</text></item><item><author>hospitalJail</author><text>I know this is all about self preservation, but gosh I hate hindering progress.&lt;p&gt;Its going to happen and AI is going to learn lyrics and how to create music, its inevitable. These are just roadblocks that are bad for everyone but the extreme minority.&lt;p&gt;Even if one company&amp;#x2F;country bans it, in 10 years, it won&amp;#x27;t matter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>selfhoster11</author><text>“Companies owning it” is presumably not what the parent had in mind (or at least, not mainly). People should have access to locally-running AI just as megacorps do. And I don’t think it’s reasonable to require licensing for every little thing used to train those, much like we (hopefully) wouldn’t require people leaving the cinema to be memory-wiped to prevent them from stealing creative cues from the film they just watched, if memory wiping was a thing.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; why do y&amp;#x27;all think &amp;quot;ai&amp;quot; is something with a mind of its own that just runs about and does things?&lt;p&gt;Because GPT-4 is already capable of doing this (very poorly) if incorporated into a larger system that provides it with REPLs, internet access, an initial goal, and some form of memory. GPT-5 will be more capable, and AI will only get better at this.</text></comment>
<story><title>Universal Music Asks Streaming Services to Block AI Access to Its Songs</title><url>https://variety.com/2023/music/news/universal-music-streaming-services-block-ai-1235582612/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumballindie</author><text>&amp;gt; Its going to happen and AI is going to learn lyrics and how to create music, its inevitable.&lt;p&gt;Why is everyone in AI so open to stealing people&amp;#x27;s work and why do y&amp;#x27;all think &amp;quot;ai&amp;quot; is something with a mind of its own that just runs about and does things? It&amp;#x27;s a software product and the companies owning it must play by the rules. Period.</text></item><item><author>hospitalJail</author><text>I know this is all about self preservation, but gosh I hate hindering progress.&lt;p&gt;Its going to happen and AI is going to learn lyrics and how to create music, its inevitable. These are just roadblocks that are bad for everyone but the extreme minority.&lt;p&gt;Even if one company&amp;#x2F;country bans it, in 10 years, it won&amp;#x27;t matter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hammyhavoc</author><text>Remember NFTs ripping off the work of others? Same crowd.</text></comment>