Madonna Does Not Want Her Music Trained On By AI
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Madonna explicitly refuses to have her music used for AI training, regardless of payment offered. AI music companies like Suno have reached $5 billion valuations by training on artists' work without compensation or consent, generating more music every two weeks than exists on Spotify. Fair use loopholes and workarounds exist to bypass copyright restrictions, and existing platforms like Spotify should implement opt-in systems with payments rather than relying on unauthorized training data.
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AI and music content is exciting because so many people are experimenting with writing songs for the first time, writing beats, and creating sounds for the first time. However, companies valued at billions of dollars are built on top of other people's music where not one artist has ever gotten paid a dollar. This is not okay.
Suno is now at a $5 billion valuation and next thing it will be at a $10 billion valuation, all built off the world's music, yet not one music artist has gotten a dollar. The speaker has met with Mikey, who runs Suno, many times. The hope is that Mikey does the right thing and fixes this by creating a system that allows artists to opt in or opt out. If artists opt in, there needs to be a way to pay them. The speaker is opting out and does not want their music used to build the business.
Every 2 weeks, more music is made on AI than all of the music that's on Spotify today. While this inspires people and allows them to create songs, businesses should not be built using music without getting the rights first.
When Napster first started, the speaker met with Shawn because it was exciting to see people downloading music, but it was illegal. The hope was they would crack the code on how to turn this into a system where artists get paid, but before that could happen, Napster got shut down. Daniel Ek in Stockholm built Spotify and figured out that people would pay for music if given access to all the music in the world without having to piece it together or illegally download songs that might be corrupt. People have paid for it through streaming, which is now the core where money is coming in to music artists.
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