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Sony Music opts out of AI training for its entire catalog (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The difference being that Sony actually has teams of lawyers who specialize in copyright violations, including unauthorized sampling. If the AI companies are caught using Sony material this won’t go nearly as easily for them as stealing some random blogger’s writings or a small artist’s images.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (4 children)

They’re crazy if they think their catalogue hasn’t already been used to train models

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They know it has. Think of this like when a porn studio uploads their own films to a torrent site, and then goes after people who download them.

Except, in this case, everyone involved are terrible human beings. So... while I will never cheer for Sony Music, I will happily root against all the AI/tech companies they go after for scraping their catalogues.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Sony is probably working on a music generator as we speak. So it's not like Sony vs AI but Sony AI Monopoly vs Diverse AI ecosystem including FOSS.

I also consider the data stolen in either case, since Sony isn't going to give a dime more to their artists when they either sell the data or come out with their own software. Actually, if everyone owns it and can use it to train, I see it more as sharing tbh.

I guess I might be bias, I hate these fat cat companies trying to strangle new tech so we have to lick their boots while using it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And AI companies are crazy if they think Sony won't makee them pay for that as soon as they can prove it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

That might take a while.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Perhaps that's why they are eager to do this - think of all the money they could make from lawsuits...;-)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

They don't think that.