Universal Music Group, led by chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge, is teaming up with L.A.-based AI music company Klay Vision on what they described as “a pioneering commercial ethical foundational model for AI-generated music that works in collaboration with the music industry and its creators.” The two companies said that they share “the conviction that state-of-the-art foundational AI models are best built and scaled responsibly through constructive dialogue and consensus.”
Source: Universal Music Strikes Strategic Deal With “Ethical AI Music Company” Klay Vision
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt emerged Tuesday as one of Hollywood’s most vocal critics of artificial intelligence, saying the new technology represents a threat to the work he and other performers do. “The sleight of hand of calling something ‘artificial intelligence’ makes you ignore the fact that these were created by humans,” he said in an interview at The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live. The companies have to answer for the years of work they are using to train models now valued in the billions of dollars, he said.
More than 10,500 creative professionals, including Thom Yorke from Radiohead, actress Julianne Moore and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, have signed an open letter condemning “unlicensed use of creative works” to develop artificial intelligence systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Use of creative work without a license for AI development is “a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted,” the brief, 29-word letter says.
