Comment by snakeyjake

3 years ago

A more apt comparison is sampling.

AI is sampling other's works.

Musicians can and do sample. They also obtain clearance for commercial works, pay royalties if required, AND credit the samples if required.

AI "art" does none of that.

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Minor49er  3 years ago

Musicians overwhelmingly do not even attempt to clear samples. This also isn't a great comparison since samples are taken directly out of the audio, not turned into a part of a pattern used to generate new sounds like what AI generators do with images

  • snakeyjake  3 years ago

    Commercial musicians do not?

    You sure about that?

    Entire legal firm empires have been built on the licensing, negotiations, and fees that make up the industry.

    I'm ain't talking about some dude on YouTube or Soundcloud. Few people care about some rando on Soundcloud. Those moles aren't big enough to whack. Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer were. OpenAI is as well.

    There's even a company that specializes in sample clearance: https://sampleclearance.com

    More info: https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/sample-clearance

    Also:

    >not turned into a part of a pattern used to generate new sounds like what AI generators do with images

    This is demonstrably false. Multiple individuals have repeatedly been able to extract original images from AI generators.

    Here's one-- Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188

    Text, too: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17035