Comment by qoez
3 days ago
OpenAI and google are too scared of music industry lawyers to tackle this. Internally they without a doubt have models that would crush these startups over night if they chose to release them.
3 days ago
OpenAI and google are too scared of music industry lawyers to tackle this. Internally they without a doubt have models that would crush these startups over night if they chose to release them.
Is your claim that music industry lawyers are that much scarier than movie industry lawyers? Because the big labs don't seem to have any problem releasing models that create (possibly infringing) video.
The movie industry is doing well from AI.
Thus far AI has only been used to create fan fiction clips that generate free marketing for legacy IP on TikTok. And the rights holders know that if AI gets good enough to make feature length movies then they'll be able to aggressively use various legal mechanisms to take the videos off major sites and pursue the creators. Long term it could potentially lower internal production costs by getting rid of actors & writers.
Music is very different. The production cost is already zero, and people generating their own Taylor Swift songs is a real competitive threat to Spotify etc.
Just right now: ByteDance to curb AI video app after Disney legal threat
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93wq6xqgy1o
> Is your claim that music industry lawyers are that much scarier than movie industry lawyers?
Not qoez:
You have to balance market opportunities with the risk of reputational damage and litigation risk.
Video will probably make a lot more money than audio, so you are willing to take a bigger risk. Additionally, at least for Google there exists a strong synergy between their video generation models and YouTube, which makes it even more sensible for Google to make video models available to the public despite these risks.
well i guess the music industry is a lot more monopolized than video, plus there is a lot of video out there that isn't "movies," while there's not a lot of music that isn't... "music"
What about Disney's lawyers? GenAI for images exists ...
Disney is actually quite excited about GenAI [0]
[0] https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/
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I'm not sure it's just fear of lawyers, although that's definitely part of it. Big companies have way more to lose reputationally and legally, so the bar for releasing something is much higher