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by TheMagicHorsey 53 days ago
What a coincidence. Just today, someone on my high school alumni group just posted an album they "made", which is 100% AI generated music. They claim authorship because they created the prompts to the AI.

My feeling is that if the AI is this good, the audience will just prompt the AI themselves and cut out the middleman.
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redwall_hp 53 days ago
Good news: the courts (all the way up to the Supreme Court, which declined the appeal) have upheld the Copyright Office's assertion that their album is public domain and ineligible for copyright protection. Prompts are insufficient human authorship, which is a requirement for copyright to apply.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-de...

Arguably, this makes sending such an album to a distributor a contractual violation as well, since you must assert that you own the rights to license it to them and are empowering them to collect royalties on your behalf.

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userbinator 53 days ago
the audience will just prompt the AI themselves and cut out the middleman

It seems like "personalised recommendations" are heading in that direction, but don't forget there's also the social aspect --- listeners will want to share what they liked the most, so even if they end up automatically prompting the AI to generate exactly the music they want, they'll find others who also like very similar music.

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jjfoooo4 53 days ago
> My feeling is that if the AI is this good, the audience will just prompt the AI themselves and cut out the middleman.

I call this the instant imitator trap. If anything AI generates stands out from the slop, the slop generators will just imitate it, thus quickly making whatever standout quality from the "original" work also slop.

I wrote about it here: https://tombedor.dev/creativity/

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