Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
CEO of @fairlytrained / Composer. Involuntary training data provider.
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This might be the biggest admission in any of the 100+ AI copyright lawsuits.
OpenAI & Microsoft execs admit the case is about “the largest theft of labor in human history”, that publishers face an “existential threat” from their products, and that those products “are largely substitutive, period.”
They are right, of course. But it is huge that they have admitted it.
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Suno - a company that trained on "essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open Internet", and argues it does not need to pay to do so - is now valued at $5.4 billion.
They will pay for GPUs, and for engineers, but not, apparently, for the music they use - other people's music - without which their models would not work.
I know lots of musicians who will be upset. I am with them.
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