[exodust]

I suppose we wouldn't allow an alien race to release music in our market on Earth, would we? Although if they had a human agent on Earth, perhaps they could release music under a dedicated Alien label. Human musicians wouldn't like having their grass cut by Aliens, so they campaign to ban Alien music. The Aliens protest, saying "let the market decide." I'm not sure what happens next.

[JohnFen]

Why not, as long as the aliens didn't use the work of human musicians.

These musicians aren't complaining about AI generated music. They're complaining that the mechanism being introduced to supposedly help them avoid having their works ingested by AI is, in fact, worthless.

[exodust]

> as long as the aliens didn't use the work of human musicians.

Don't you mean "inspired by" the work of human musicians? It's a fine line between inspiration and training.

If AI listens to human music in order to produce similar music, isn't that similar to human musicians listening to other music, then setting a goal to do their own take?

Musicians who use four-on-the-floor or familiar arrangements of verse-chorus-verse, and lyrics about love and loss, are aiming to fit into an existing pop music market. Without "training data" from other music already in the market, do you honestly believe those musicians would have created the music they did? Of course not, so why can't the Aliens/AI listen/train on our music and make their own version which sounds similar in order to fit the market?

[anthony_d]

I can’t imagine why we wouldn’t allow aliens to release music here. Not sure what form royalties would be in.

[braebo]

Of course we would. Alien music would be all the rage!