Australian musicians sound warning note after Nick Cave, Kylie and many more slurped into AI training tool

What happened

According to The Guardian’s linked item, Australian musicians sound warning note after Nick Cave, Kylie and many more slurped into AI training tool, ‘It’s all just rendered useless’, Something For Kate’s Paul Dempsey says as AI scrapes millions of songs to learn how to make music Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Paul Dempsey and Bernard Fanning are among big-name Australian musicians upset that their original songs have been found in datasets used to train artificial intelligence. A dataset search tool recently created by US publication The Atlantic reveals millions of creative works have been scraped from the internet to train the disruptive technology. Continue reading…

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Source

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