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While it will never be the same, generative AI will certainly not destroy photography or any visual art. In fact, it might just do the opposite. We, human beings, like computers, learn by copying. Great artists all started by admiring a previous artist and copying them until they found their own style. They watch and learn from seeing others’ artwork exactly how generative AI currently learn from large repository of visual content. Nothing different.

Source: No, Generative AI is not the end of art or photography – Kaptur

A number of new artificial intelligence systems turn simple text prompts into striking images. Some artists were already fearful that a new breed of AI image generator could take their jobs, and take a free ride on the years spent learning their craft. “This thing wants our jobs, it’s actively anti-artist”, wrote California-based movie and game concept artist RJ Palmer in a Tweet liked more than 25,000 times.

Source: “Art is dead Dude” – the rise of the AI artists stirs debate

FN Meka, introduced in 2021 as a “virtual” rapper whose lyrics and beats were constructed with “proprietary AI technology,” had a promising rise. But just days after he signed on with Capitol Records — the label that carried The Beatles, Nat King Cole and The Beach Boys — and released his debut track “Florida Water,” the record company dropped him.

Source: The future of AI in music is now. Artificial Intelligence was in the music industry long before FN Meka.

More than a year after Australia adopted a pioneering new media bargaining code and the EU Copyright Directive went into effect, the idea of getting Big Tech to pay for the news they use is gaining greater support around the world, with lawmakers in Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia, Sweden, the U.S., and the U.K. exploring interventions that they hope will support an industry facing an extinction event yet recognized as essential to democratic governance.

Source: Frenemies: Global approaches to rebalance the Big Tech v journalism relationship

Web3 music platform YellowHeart has launched an NFT streaming player, which founder and CEO Josh Katz believes will unlock a new wave of adoption of Web3 music. “One of the biggest bottlenecks we’ve faced is making NFT content easily digestible for fans,” he said in a statement. “Bringing a Web3-friendly streaming player into the space puts this roadblock to bed.

Source: The Spotify of NFTs? YellowHeart Launches Web3 Streaming Player

At every given time in Hollywood, there are court disputes between producers and directors or between studios and actors. These disputes are often about ownership issues, compensation issues, or a breach of other contractual stipulations. However, the possibility of erasing this recurrent issue is high with the blockchain.

Source: Breaking The Chain; How Blockchain Is Sponsoring More Equity And Transparency In Hollywood

Decentralized Pictures aims to use the wisdom of the crowd to fund new projects—and has support from the likes of Roman Coppola and Kevin Smith. Leo Matchett, a Technical Emmy Award winner and CEO of Decentralized Pictures, thinks blockchain voting can help open up many of Hollywood’s long-guarded doors to new and more diverse voices.

Source: How Web3 Can Change Hollywood: Decentralized Pictures CEO – Decrypt

As access to AI art generators begins to widen, more artists are raising questions about their capability to mimic the work of human creators. David Oreilly, a digital artist who has been critical of DALL-E, says the idea of using these tools that feed on past work to create new works that make money feels wrong. “They don’t own any of the material they reconstitute,” he says. “It would be like Google Images charging money.”

Source: Algorithms Can Now Mimic Any Artist. Some Artists Hate It

Today, OneOf announced a new partnership with Globe Entertainment and Media, custodians of the world’s most famous archives, to “bring iconic images of musicians, movie stars, comic book characters and cultural events into Web3, bridging physical and digital worlds together.” OneOf and Globe will launch the Legends of Rock: Summer of Love in honor of the Monterey Pop Festival’s 55^th anniversary.

Source: OneOf Breaks New “Phygital” NFT: A New Frontier For The Industry

Kobalt is expanding into the NFT business, revealing plans to release a ‘music lyric NFT’ collection called An Electro Revival. In a media statement, Derek Cournoyer, Kobalt’s VP, Global Digital Partnerships, said that “after licensing many NFTs for various projects”, the company now wants “to dive deeper into this emerging market and experiment alongside our clients”.

Source: Kobalt to launch NFT collection, becoming ‘first global music publisher to release a set of fully licensed direct-to-fan NFTs’