200 Artists And Songwriters Sign Letter Of Termination Of Unresponsible Use Of AI
JAKARTA - As many as 200 well-known artists and songwriters in the world have signed an open letter calling for the termination of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) that violates the rights of human artists.
We, members of the artist community and songwriters signed below, call on developers Al, technology companies, platforms, and digital music services to stop the use of artificial intelligence (AI)," the letter reads.
The artists and songwriters who signed the letter included Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Camila Cabello, Jon Bon Jovi, Zayn Malik, and many more.
200+ artists call on tech companies to stop AI use that devalues music and infringes upon the rights of human artists. AI has enormous potential as a tool for human creativity – but when used irresponsibly, it poses an existential threat to our art. https://t.co/AaxboN5CEX pic.twitter.com/CPBeRX46td
— Artist Rights Alliance (@artistrightsnow) April 2, 2024
200+ artists call on tech companies to stop AI use that devalues music and infringes upon the rights of human artists. AI has enormous potential as a tool for human creativity – but when used irresponsibly, it poses an existential threat to our art. https://t.co/AaxboN5CEX pic.twitter.com/CPBeRX46td
The artists believe that if used responsibly, AI has enormous potential to advance human creativity.
But on the other hand, some platforms and developers hire Al to sabotage creativity and weaken artists, songwriters, musicians, and copyright holders.
Thus, if used irresponsibly, Al can pose a major threat to our ability to protect the privacy, identity, music and livelihood of artists.
Moreover, a number of large and well-known world companies without permission use these artists to train their Al model. For musicians, artists, and songwriters who only live from this job, of course this is a big disaster.
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These efforts are directly aimed at replacing the work of human artists with "sounds" and "images" created by Al in large quantities that substantially reduce the amount of royalties paid to artists," he continued.
Because if it is not controlled, Al will trigger a race towards a low that will lower the work value of the artists and prevent them from getting fair compensation for the work.
We call on all developers, technology companies, platforms and digital music services Al to promise that they will not develop or implement Al's music-making tools that undermine or replace human art from songwriters and artists or refuse to compensate us fairly for that. our job, "the letter concluded.