The creative industries – and their creators – have plenty of views on how artificial intelligence technologies should be regulated. And they are very keen to communicate those views to the politicians who’ll be responsible for crafting the legislation to make those regulations happen. However, the British government’s latest efforts to canvass those views has sparked criticism from one of the bodies that represents musicians: the Council of Music Makers.
Source: Music creators’ body criticises UK government over AI roundtable – Music Ally
Europe’s three largest economies have turned against regulation of the most powerful types of artificial intelligence, putting the fate of the bloc’s pioneering Artificial Intelligence Act on the line. France, Germany and Italy are stonewalling negotiations over a controversial section of the EU’s draft AI legislation so it doesn’t hamper Europe’s own development of “foundation models,” AI infrastructure that underpins large-language models like OpenAI’s GPT and Google’s Bard.
Earlier this year, the visual effects company, Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies (MARZ). unveiled a technology called LipDub AI, which digitally manipulates actors’ facial expressions to match spoken words in foreign languages. The technology promises to achieve an extraordinary level of realism and fluency, learning to make actors’ lips match the language and the performers.
