Though NFT tickets are relatively new, mainstream festivals haven’t hesitated to test the waters with them. Per nft now, fan-favorite event Coachella was one of the first major fests to utilize these types of tickets for memorabilia and lifetime festival access. Coachella made this happen through a partnership with FTX, which fell by the wayside thanks to legal issues with the exchange.
Source: Web3 | How NFT tickets are revolutionizing music festivals forever
AI Hub’ is a rapidly growing Discord server where users share guides and AI models, including voice models of major musicians. The RIAA suggests that the server is dedicated to copyright infringement and wants it shut down. Through a DMCA subpoena, the anti-piracy group further asks Discord to disclose the identities of several users.
Source: RIAA Targets ‘AI Hub’ Discord Users Over Copyright Infringement * TorrentFreak
The decision to have AI play a role in the creation of the “Secret Invasion” opening credits has upset many viewers on social media, as using AI presumably took jobs away from human animators and graphic designers. Marvel Studios’ parent company, Disney, has increasingly been using AI on projects, most notably in the de-aging of Harrison Ford in the upcoming “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”
A new report from Time suggests that despite CEO Sam Altman’s public calls for AI regulation, his company wants to define said regulation. Time examined documents about OpenAI’s engagement with E.U. officials about the law. In several cases, the company proposed amendments that later made it into the final text of the E.U. law.
Source: OpenAI Lobbied Europe to Water Down A.I. Regulations
Motown Records is motoring into the metaverse. The fabled label and its artists will take the leap into the virtual world for the first time. through a partnership with Linden Lab’s Second Life and music integration platform STYNGR, which boasts a pre-cleared catalog of more than 100 million tracks.
According to Microsoft, ‘Muzic’is a “project on AI music that empowers music understanding and generation with deep learning and artificial intelligence.” Of all the projects in the works at Muzic, this one might make a few music rightsholders spit out their coffee. In 2021, Muzic researchers developed an AI-powered ‘rap generator’ called DeepRapper.
Most AI programs function like a “black box.” That dilemma prompted computer scientist Kristian Kersting of the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany and colleagues to introduce an algorithm called AtMan earlier this year. AtMan allows large AI systems such as ChatGPT, Dall-E and Midjourney to finally explain their outputs.
The overnight success of AI-powered ChatGPT has triggered a frenzy among Washington lawmakers to draft new laws addressing the promise and peril of the burgeoning field. Lawmakers’ gaps in technical expertise have provided an opening for corporate interests. Executives motivated to develop AI without hindrance are flocking to Washington, eager to lend a hand in lawmakers’ education — and influence policy.
Source: Congress is racing to regulate AI. Silicon Valley is eager to teach them how.
Generative AI tools, at first glance, seem to fully automate artistic production—an impression that mirrors past instances when traditionalists viewed new technologies as threatening “art itself.” In fact, these moments of technological change did not indicate the “end of art,” but had much more complex effects, recasting the roles and practices of creators and shifting the aesthetics of contemporary media.
The updated rules stipulated that a work that contains no human authorship is not eligible in any categories for the Awards. However, the Recording Academy noted that a work that features elements of AI material is eligible in applicable categories, although the human authorship component of the work submitted “must be meaningful.”
Source: AI music that contains ‘no human authorship’ won’t be eligible for a Grammy Award