Musical.AI, which bills itself as the company that built the world’s first secure platform for rights management in AI training, has partnered with China-headquartered license management firm Kanjian to bring what it says is a fully licensed, ready-to-use music catalog to AI developers.
Source: Musical.AI teams up with China’s Kanjian to deliver licensed music to AI developers
Particle’s plan is to use AI to do two particularly useful things. First, it organizes lots of articles and coverage into collections the platform calls “Stories,” so you can get lots of information and perspective on whatever you’re reading about. Some stories in Particle include more than 100 news articles, plus X posts, a section of salient quotes on the subject, and more.
Source: Particle is a new app using AI to organize and summarize the news
Dutch publisher Veen Bosch & Keuning’s announcement that it would use AI translation for commercial fiction has outraged both authors and translators – despite attempts to reassure them with promises that no books will be translated in this way without careful checking and that authors will have to give consent. “A translator translates more than just words, we build bridges between cultures, taking into account the target readership every step of the way,” says Michele Hutchison, winner of 2020’s International Booker prize.
Source: ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?
Though the band has been broken up for 50 years, Paul McCartney decided to use AI last year to create “the last Beatles record.” McCartney isn’t using this technology to resurrect his late bandmates, John Lennon and George Harrison, with deepfakes. Instead, McCartney took one of Lennon’s demos from 1978 and used AI to clean up the recording’s poor sound quality.
Source: The Beatles’ AI-assisted track ‘Now and Then’ is nominated for two Grammy awards
Source: State of the independent music economy: Fragmentation AND consolidation
Adobe is going all in on generative AI models and tools, even if that means turning away creators who dislike the technology. Artists who refuse to embrace AI in their work are “not going to be successful in this new world without using it,” says Alexandru Costin, vice president of generative AI at Adobe. “Our goal is to make our customers successful, and we think that in order for them to be successful, they need to embrace the tech.”
Source: Adobe execs say artists need to embrace AI or get left behind
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has released its official definition of “open” artificial intelligence, setting the stage for a clash with tech giants like Meta — whose models don’t fit the rules. OSI has long set the industry standard for what constitutes open-source software, but AI systems include elements that aren’t covered by conventional licenses, like model training data.
Source: Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
One of the assurances we’re often given in responses to the fear that AI image generators could replace human artists is that there will always need to be a human involved. Generative AI needs a human creative to tell it what to do. But don’t tell that to Botto, a fully autonomous ‘AI artist’ who just raked in $351,600 in sales at the auction house Sotheby’s, setting a new milestone in the history of AI art.
Source: Forget AI image generators, an autonomous AI artist just made $351,600 at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s will sell its first work credited to a humanoid robot using artificial intelligence (AI) later this month. A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024) was created by Ai-Da Robot, the artist robot and brainchild of Oxford gallerist Aidan Meller. The painting is estimated by Sotheby’s to sell for between $120,000 and $180,000 on 31 October. Fittingly, Sotheby’s will accept cryptocurrency for the transaction.
Source: Painting by AI robot Ai-Da could bring more than $120,000 at Sotheby’s
The UK’s new culture secretary Lisa Nandy gave a speech at the Beyond the Music conference in Manchester with some hints on its music plans. That included a nod to the debates about streaming. “While it’s made music more freely available, it’s created shockwaves for songwriters, publishers, record labels and streaming platforms,” said Nandy.
Source: UK’s culture secretary talks streaming economy and AI music