The following report is by Coin Telegraph:
The rapid emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) into the public sector has proven to be one of the biggest developments of the year on a global scale.
Major industries have been turned upside down by AI. In the creative sectors — the music industry in particular — AI is often seen as a double-edged sword: a creativity kickstarter and a thief in the night for copyright.
However, the popular musician and producer Grimes has taken a different approach to AI. She was one of the first artists to be vocal about the technology after its explosion in popularity in late 2022 with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
In April, Grimes famously said she would split 50% of the royalties with the creators generating AI music using her vocals. It was after this that Grimes announced her new platform, elf.tech, an open-source software program solely dedicated to legally replicating her voice for music creation.
In September, Grimes was included as one of Time magazine’s Top 100 people in AI. Recently, Grimes and her team partnered with the music creation platform Slip.stream to make over 200 GrimesAI songs available for use by creators.
Cointelegraph spoke with Grimes’ manager, Daouda Leonard, who is also the co-founder and CEO of CreateSafe — a design and development studio building digital asset management protocols and tools — along with the team behind Slip.stream, to understand how creators can get ahead in their approach to AI.
Daouda pinpointed the current moment on the timeline of the technological revolution as the “DARQ [distributed, artificial, reality and quantum] ages. “The only way through it is to use it,” he said. “I think all industry executives, artists and companies need to be experimenting with new emergent technologies.”
By rights holders allowing new technology platforms to train with their data, they can be proactive about striking lucrative deals for their artists and catalogs.
With AI, creators can now utilize artists’ voices, for example, in their own creations, and AI companies are taking creative data to train their systems. Therefore, a strong content management system and royalties mechanism need to be priorities.
Grimes’ management said it’s also using another emerging technology, smart contracts, to make this happen and manage metadata information about “who did what, when and what they’re owed.”
Slip.stream, as the platform that houses the available Grimes AI tracks, echoed the sentiment, saying:
It’s up to forward-thinking artists, executives and companies to dream up and experiment with its applications to better protect their clients and capture any upside. It takes guts to zig when others zag.
When artists and management don’t manage to stay on top of the latest developments, it can be too late to act.
Lawsuits against AI companies have been springing up throughout the year, be it the Author’s Guild launching a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI or Universal Music Group (UMG) suing Anthropic AI, over creative copyright infringement.
Leading by example, Grimes is showing the industry what is possible when artists both own their data and control the rights to it.
“Owning your masters and publishing is only good if you know what to do with it,” said Daouda. “I don’t know if there is a perfect artist to do such a move. Grimes felt that it was important to experiment and see what’s possible.”
I think every artist who is open to taking risks and curious about how technology can be a benefit to their career is perfect for doing this, so I’m sure there are a lot of them.
Many industry insiders who have wrapped their heads around the possibilities that AI can bring to artists are trying to proactively find ways to reap the benefits without losing sovereignty and have touted the technology as a “creative amplifier” of sorts.
Slip.stream said that when artists are proactive with their rights and content, shows that “AI is not about replacing humans with robots, but establishing new norms and structures for artistic collaboration that were unavailable to the masses before CreateSafe and Grimes.”
To give anyone in the world the ability to collaborate with their favorite artist opens up groundbreaking possibilities for creative output and fan engagement.
Grimes herself posted a similar sentiment on X (formerly Twitter) a few days after the announcement of her collaboration with Slip.stream:
Daouda ended by saying that he believes what is happening with AI is even bigger than samples and collaborations.
Generative AI or computational creativity makes it possible for people to go from idea to distribution in minutes, maybe even seconds.
Whether that’s a good or bad thing is subjective, but what is objective is that now a lot of people can do it, and it opens up modes of expression that ultimately could lead to a certain type of healing that many people can participate in. Music is healing, and when we can participate in it, that’s powerful.
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Grimes, the former partner to Elon Musk, is nasty transhumanist who believes in and sings about being literally hijacked and plugged into the AI grid, basically worshipping the AI as some kind of a god.
All this is doing is promoting laziness, and strips away any real creativity. AI is now effectively allowing for permissible theft, as I have been calling it, because the AI can be used to nab anyone’s work or intellectual properties, including their own voices and faces. This whole thing is going to be a catastrophe.
[21] My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change: [22] For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both? Proverbs 24:21-22
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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They wouldn’t know music if it slapped them in the face;
little kids singing; Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so… is better music then any AI generated crap
So true
It’s like all the fiat currency & stuff: crafted lies, not real.