“Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed a first-in-the-nation bill to prevent the use of artificial intelligence to copy a performer’s “voice.” The floor in front of the stage at Robert’s Western World, a beloved lower Broadway honky-tonk in Nashville, was packed on Thursday afternoon. But even with the country music superstar Luke Bryan and multiple other musicians on hand, the […]
“Generative A.I. is the latest in a long line of innovations to put pressure on our already dysfunctional copyright system. Intellectual property accounts for some or all of the wealth of at least half of the world’s fifty richest people, and it has been estimated to account for fifty-two per cent of the value of U.S. merchandise exports. I.P. is […]
“Two speakers at the ACMI FACT Symposium took a critical stance amid pressures for those in the arts and cultural sectors to jump on the AI bandwagon. ‘The information age has ended, and we have entered the age of noise,’ declared Eryk Salvaggio at ACMI’s Future of Arts, Culture and Technology Symposium (FACT) 2024 on Wednesday (14 February). In the […]
“A lot of the stories about AI and art right now are about legal issues — artists and content companies suing Big AI for copyright infringement — or reporters prompting AI models to create essays, novels, poetry or images and then explaining why AI will never be able to truly compete with human artists. Both stories, in my opinion, are […]
“Next month, Mr. Reben, 38, will become OpenAI’s first artist in residence. He steps in as generative A.I. advances at a head-spinning rate, with artists and writers trying to make sense of the possibilities and shifting implications. Some regard artificial intelligence as a powerful and innovative tool that can steer them in weird and wonderful directions. Others express outrage that […]