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Paris-headquartered Believe says it’s working to keep music that’s fully AI-generated off its platforms – and the technology to detect it almost perfectly already exists. “We have deployed a number of quality controls in our business and we aim not to distribute any content that is 100% created by AI, whether that’s through Believe or through TuneCore,” Believe co-founder and CEO Denis Ladegaillerie told analysts on the firm’s Q1 earnings call.

Source: Believe: We’ll block 100% AI-created music from being uploaded to streaming services via TuneCore

For Jered Chavez, a college student in Florida, the jump from messing around with AI tools one night to having a wildly viral hit came in late March. He posted a video featuring Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Ye (formerly Kanye West) singing “Fukashigi no Karte,” a theme song of an anime series. It’s collected more than 12 million views in the month since.

Source: Drake’s AI clone is here — and Drake might not be able to stop him

Recent weeks have seen enterprising fans utilize artificial intelligence to create Drake, The Weeknd, Kanye West, Rihanna, Katy Perry, and Ariana Grande soundalike works, including covers and entirely new tracks. On top of these and separate AI projects, which have secured millions of cumulative views and elicited enthusiastic listener responses, some artists are embracing the quick-developing technology.

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Google lost an early bid to escape a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit that seeks to break up the company’s business brokering digital advertising across much of the internet. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema denied Google’s request to dismiss the case, finding that the Justice Department’s complaint filed in January was sufficiently detailed to proceed. Judge Brinkema’s decision wasn’t a final ruling on the merits of the case, which is still in its early stages, and Google is expected to make additional efforts to end the case ahead of trial.

Source: Google Loses Bid to Escape DOJ’s Digital-Ad Antitrust Case

On April 27, a pair of legal measures were advanced within the European Union that promise to greatly impact the state of technological commercialization within Europe for both standardized and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Multiple commentators have pointed out issues that could slow the rate of technological commercialization to the detriment of Europeans across the continent.

Source: New SEP Regulatory Framework and AI Copyright Legislation Advance in the European Union

This week, the Republican National Committee used artificial intelligence to create a 30-second ad imagining what President Joe Biden’s second term might look like. It depicts a string of fictional crises, from a Chinese invasion of Taiwan to the shutdown of the city of San Francisco, illustrated with fake images and news reports. A small disclaimer in the upper left says the video was “Built with AI imagery.”

Source: AI-generated deepfakes are moving fast and policymakers can’t keep up

Book.io and the Algorand Foundation will create 10,000e-book NFTs of Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World,’ each with 500 AI-designed covers of varying rarity. The NFTs can be read on Book.io’s web reader or mobile app and can be gifted, sold, or traded. Book.io co-founder Ben Illian says that Algorand was chosen for its scalability, minimal transaction fees, decentralized platform, and near-zero carbon footprint.

Source: Book.io Releases ‘Brave New World’ as an NFT E-book on the Algorand Blockchain

After months of negotiations and two years after a draft rules were proposed, EU lawmakers have a draft of the Artificial Intelligence Act. The European Parliament confirmed previous proposals to put stricter obligations on foundation models, a subcategory of “General Purpose AI” that includes tools such as ChatGPT. Under the proposals, companies that make generative AI tools such as ChatGPT would have to disclose if they have used copyrighted material in their systems.

Source: EU lawmakers pass draft of AI Act, includes copyright rules for generative AI

Spotify is taking concerns about the impact of AI-generated music on entertainment rightsholders seriously, CEO Daniel Ek told analysts. “[T]he AI pushback from the copyright industry, or labels and media companies, is really [concerned with] issues like ‘name and likeness’, what is an actual copyright, who owns the right to something where you upload something and claim it to be Drake [when] it’s really not, and so on,” Ek said. “Those are legitimate concerns.”

Source: Spotify confirms it’s working with labels to quell copyright threat from AI music