German music labels have filed additional suits against music gen AI companies for stealing their clients’ work without consent or compensation. I attended CES a couple weeks back and it was amazing to me that almost every single Gen AI company said their use of “public content” (which was interpreted as anything they could pull from the Internet) was Fair Use and they weren’t make a product based of the content.
When ChatGPT’s Dall-E makes an image of a Nintendo-related item and someone has paid for ChatGPT, is that not making profit with a product built by stealing someone else’s IP? There is this insane level of willful ignorance that Gen AI developers believe that all the things they steal are not theft, but I bet if the roles were reversed and their products where being used to build someone else’s product that all of a sudden they’d be crying foul! It’s amazing how far willful ignorance can get you.
PS Today’s Gen AI image “Music Label Gen AI” in the theme of music brought to you by “kinda poorly drawn in places” and “throw in ‘GenAI’ text!”
