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> In my opinion training on all music is no more theft than Taylor Swift listening to the radio growing up (as long as we don't regurgitate existing songs which would be bad and useless anyway).

I beg of you, speak to some real life musicians. A human composing or improvising is not choosing notes based on a set of probabilities derived from all the music they’ve heard in their life.

> I think an alternative legal interpretation where all of humanity's musical knowledge and history are controlled by three megacorporations (UMG/Sony/Warner) would be kinda depressing.

Your impoverished worldview of music as an artistic endeavor is depressing. Humanity’s musical knowledge extends far beyond the big 3.

> If the above is true we might as well shutdown OpenAI and delete all LLM weights while we're at it

Now we’re talking.

> losing massive value to humanity.

Nothing of value would be lost. In fact it would refund massive value to humanity that was stolen by generative AI.