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If we fully engage with how generative AI works, we can still create original art

Even before the recent protest by a group of well-known musicians at the UK government’s plans to allow AI companies to use copyright-protected work for training, disquiet around artists’ rights was already growing.

The Conversation

We need a better name for AI, or we risk talking past each other until actually intelligent AGI comes home mooing

A-I can't believe it's not actually intelligent.

PC Gamer

Creative progress or mass theft? Why a major AI art auction is provoking wonder – and outrage

Thirty-four artworks created with artificial intelligence (AI) have gone up for sale at Christie’s in New York, in the famed auction house’s first collection dedicated to AI art.

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‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled

Letter says many of works being sold by Christie’s are made by AI models trained on pieces by human artists, without a licence

The Guardian - UK

This Frieze week proved it's high time to take AI art seriously — and 9 AI artists to know

Whether you like it or not, art made by computers dominated conversations during Frieze week

Evening Standard

Artists teach a choir of GPU fans to sing with AI and the result is not as soulless as you might think

More than just hot air?

PC Gamer

Musical ‘GPU organ’ powers its pipes using PC fans and AI models

AI-embracing musicians and audiovisual artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst have a new exhibition where you can see and hear their 'GPU organ' in action. Herndon explains that the new-fangled pipe organ 'plays music acoustically by controlling the RPM of each fan.'

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“It's awful, it's illegal, and it's bad for our society”: Have AI music generators been trained on your music?

”The outputs are positioned to compete commercially with the very songs they were trained on”: We speak with artists, lawyers, and campaigners about the music industry's battle with AI song generators

MusicRadar

Should artists be terrified of AI replacing them?

There’s no point in panicking about AI – it’s already on its way By Rudi Zygadlo

The Guardian - UK

Harry, sing Lana Del Rey! How AI is making pop fans’ fantasies come true

Longed-for duets between favourite pop singers are now being generated by AI. Fans are enthralled, but artists are worried: ‘I can’t help but think that I can be easily replaced’

The Guardian - UK

DJ David Guetta used Eminem in a set and ‘people went nuts’—but A.I. generated the rapper’s voice and lyrics and that sparked some thorny questions

“Eminem bro, there’s something that I made as a joke and it works so good," Guetta said of the track.

Fortune

This couple is launching an organization to protect artists in the AI era

Mat Dryhurst & Holly Herndon want creatives to be able to opt into or out of having their work used as training data for DALL-E and the like.

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