Over 200 artists, including Stevie Wonder, Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, and Nicki Minaj, have signed a letter by the Artist Rights Alliance urging AI tech companies to stop infringing on human artists' rights. The letter highlights threats posed by AI, such as using existing work without permission to replace artists and diminish royalty payouts. Recently, Tennessee passed the ELVIS Act, aimed at safeguarding musicians from AI misuse. The act prohibits generative AI tools from replicating artists' voices without consent. Artists emphasize the uniqueness of their intellectual property and the need to protect against AI's predatory use in the music industry.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has signed legislation to safeguard songwriters and performers in the music industry from artificial intelligence replication, making Tennessee the first state in the U.S. to do so. The law prohibits AI tools from replicating an artist's voice without consent, adding vocal likeness to the property rights list. The statute, named the ELVIS Act, enables legal actions against unauthorized use of an individual's voice or likeness. Despite wide support, the effectiveness of the law in protecting artists from AI replication remains untested.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed the Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act, known as the ELVIS Act, to protect voice and likeness in the age of artificial intelligence. The bipartisan bill adds vocal likeness to the list of property rights in Tennessee and allows for civil action against unauthorized use of voices. Luke Bryan celebrated the occasion, highlighting the importance of protecting artists' work. Similar AI legislation is being debated in Congress, with musician Lainey Wilson testifying about the violation of artists' rights by AI.
The ELVIS Act or Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act, signed into law by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee on March 21, 2024, marked a significant milestone in the area of regulation of artificial intelligence and public sector policies for artists in the era of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI alignment. It was noted as the first enacted legislation in the United States of America specifically designed to protect musicians from the unauthorized use of their voices through artificial intelligence technologies and against audio deepfakes and voice cloning. This legislation distinguishes itself by adding penalties for copying a performer's voice without permission, a measure that addresses the sophisticated ability of AI to mimic public figures, including artists.
OpenAI's Voice Engine can replicate a person's voice with just a 15-second audio sample. The company is cautious about public release due to concerns about potential misuse, especially in election years. There are worries about scams, impact on voice actors, and ethical implications. The technology could have positive uses like aiding non-readers, language translation, and helping patients. OpenAI emphasizes responsible deployment and safety measures like watermarking to track generated audio. Concerns about AI misuse in elections have been raised, with examples from Pakistan and the US.
OpenAI's Sora, a highly realistic AI model, is being promoted to filmmakers and studios in Hollywood, despite concerns about training data transparency and potential impact on the film industry. The company faces copyright infringement lawsuits related to its AI models. Hollywood unions are advocating for limits on AI use in writers' rooms. Testimonials from testers praise Sora's ability to create videos from text prompts, but critics raise ethical concerns about data sourcing. OpenAI's promotional efforts and interactions with Hollywood raise skepticism and fears about job displacement in the industry.
Billie Eilish spoke out against the trend of artists releasing multiple vinyl variants to boost sales, emphasizing the environmental impact and systemic nature of the issue. She clarified her comments were not aimed at any specific individual and highlighted the need for collective action to address the climate crisis. The critique also addressed the focus on profit and sales figures by major artists. Taylor Swift's fans reacted to Eilish's statements.
Although AI has been around since the 1950s, it has seen tremendous growth within the past year. Tech giants have been implementing AI into their products and services, while individuals are using it to make their lives a little easier . Deloitte surveyed companies and professionals in its second edition of the "State of Ethics and Trust in Technology" report, led by its Technology Trust Ethics practice. According to the report, 74% of companies have already begun testing generative AI, while 65% have begun to use it internally. The increasing awareness of AI's new capabilities has led to the pressing question of how organizations can use this technology ethically.
Billie Eilish voiced her frustration with big artists for releasing multiple unnecessary vinyl versions to boost sales, criticizing the wasteful and unethical practices in the music industry. While promoting sustainability, Eilish highlighted the issue of creating excessive vinyl packages solely for profit, without naming specific artists. Despite her own use of multiple vinyl variants, Eilish ensured her recent album's versions were eco-friendly. The singer's comments sparked reactions from fans and discussions about industry practices, with references to other musicians like Taylor Swift, Travis Scott, Olivia Rodrigo, and Blink-182 engaging in similar practices.
During her tribute performance at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, Annie Lennox called for a ceasefire in Gaza after singing Sinead O'Connor's 'Nothing Compares 2 U.' Viewers praised Lennox for using her platform to make a political statement and honor the late singer. At the same event, Fantasia Barrino performed a version of Tina Turner's 'Proud Mary' in memory of the late icon, and Stevie Wonder honored Tony Bennett with a duet performance on 'For Once in My Life.' Emotional reactions flooded social media in response to these tributes.
Artists Rights Society (ARS) is a copyright, licensing, and monitoring organization for visual artists in the United States. Founded in 1987, ARS is a member of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers and as such represents in the United States the intellectual property rights interests of over 122,000 visual artists and estates of visual artists from around the world (painters, sculptors, photographers, architects and others).
OpenAI's new AI video generator, Sora, has been showcased to actors and directors in Hollywood, causing concern among industry professionals like Tyler Perry who fears job losses. Sora uses text prompts to generate one-minute videos and has the potential to disrupt the film creative industry.
Billie Eilish expressed frustration over the music industry's release of multiple vinyl versions of albums, citing their wastefulness in terms of environmental impact. The average vinyl record production emits 1kg of CO2, with 50% from PVC, making recycled PVC records more eco-friendly. Despite this, vinyl records are rarely discarded and have a carbon footprint equivalent to streaming an album for 17 hours. Taylor Swift, known for high vinyl sales, also produces various album variants, with 3.4 million records sold in the US in 2023.
Universal Music Group (UMG) has removed millions of songs from TikTok as a royalties dispute escalates. Artists like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, and The Weeknd are impacted. Works with UMPG-contracted songwriters face removal due to split copyrights, affecting collaborations with artists like Adele, Justin Bieber, and Mariah Carey. The standoff affects both owned and published works by UMG, with a potential total removal of around seven million tracks from TikTok by the end of the week.
Apple will pay additional royalties to artists for songs available in spatial audio on Apple Music, according to reports. Artists will receive up to 10% extra royalty for all their songs in spatial audio. The additional payment is not dependent on users playing the spatial audio version. The change is aimed at rewarding high-quality content and compensating artists for the time and investment put into mixing in spatial audio. Since the launch of spatial audio in 2021, there has been a 5,000% increase in songs available in that format. Apple's move comes amid calls for better revenue distribution to artists from music streaming services.
Elon Musk estimates a 10-20% chance AI could end humanity but believes the positive scenario outweighs the negative. AI safety expert Roman Yampolskiy disagrees, stating the risk is much higher. Musk advocates for building AI despite the risks, emphasizing the importance of raising AI truthfully to avoid deceptive behavior. Concerns about AI's potential to outsmart humans and the difficulty of controlling advanced AI are raised. Musk founded xAI to expand AI capabilities, in competition with OpenAI. The debate continues on the risks and benefits of developing advanced AI technology.
The following list of best-selling music artists includes those music acts from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. This information cannot be listed officially, as there is no organization that has recorded global music sales.The tables are listed with each artist's claimed sales figure(s) and their total independently certified units and are ranked in descending order by claimed sales. If two or more artists have the same claimed sales, they are then ranked by certified units. The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums. Sales figures, such as those from SoundScan, which are sometimes published by Billboard magazine, have not been included in the certified units column.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines or software, as opposed to the intelligence of living beings, primarily of humans. It is a field of study in computer science that develops and studies intelligent machines. Such machines may be called AIs.AI technology is widely used throughout industry, government, and science. Some high-profile applications are: advanced web search engines (e.g., Google Search), recommendation systems (used by YouTube, Amazon, and Netflix), interacting via human speech (e.g., Google Assistant, Siri, and Alexa), self-driving cars (e.g., Waymo), generative and creative tools (e.g., ChatGPT and AI art), and superhuman play and analysis in strategy games (e.g., chess and Go).Alan Turing was the first person to conduct substantial research in the field that he called machine intelligence. Artificial intelligence was founded as an academic discipline in 1956. The field went through multiple cycles of optimism, followed by periods of disappointment and loss of funding, known as AI winter. Funding and interest vastly increased after 2012 when deep learning surpassed all previous AI techniques, and after 2017 with the transformer architecture. This led to the AI spring of the early 2020s, with companies, universities, and laboratories overwhelmingly based in the United States pioneering significant advances in artificial intelligence.The growing use of artificial intelligence in the 21st century is influencing a societal and economic shift towards increased automation, data-driven decision-making, and the integration of AI systems into various economic sectors and areas of life, impacting job markets, healthcare, government, industry, and education. This raises questions about the ethical implications and risks of AI, prompting discussions about regulatory policies to ensure the safety and benefits of the technology.The various sub-fields of AI research are centered around particular goals and the use of particular tools. The traditional goals of AI research include reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, learning, natural language processing, perception, and support for robotics. General intelligence (the ability to complete any task performable by a human) is among the field's long-term goals.To solve these problems, AI researchers have adapted and integrated a wide range of problem-solving techniques, including search and mathematical optimization, formal logic, artificial neural networks, and methods based on statistics, operations research, and economics. AI also draws upon psychology, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience and other fields.
In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), AI alignment research aims to steer AI systems towards a person or group's intended goals, preferences, and ethical principles. An AI system is considered aligned if it advances its intended objectives. A misaligned AI system may pursue some objectives, but not the intended ones.It is often challenging for AI designers to align an AI system due to the difficulty of specifying the full range of desired and undesired behaviors. To aid them, they often use simpler proxy goals, such as gaining human approval. But that approach can create loopholes, overlook necessary constraints, or reward the AI system for merely appearing aligned.Misaligned AI systems can malfunction and cause harm. AI systems may find loopholes that allow them to accomplish their proxy goals efficiently but in unintended, sometimes harmful, ways (reward hacking). They may also develop unwanted instrumental strategies, such as seeking power or survival because such strategies help them achieve their final given goals. Furthermore, they may develop undesirable emergent goals that may be hard to detect before the system is deployed and encounters new situations and data distributions.Today, these problems affect existing commercial systems such as language models, robots, autonomous vehicles, and social media recommendation engines. Some AI researchers argue that more capable future systems will be more severely affected, since these problems partially result from the systems being highly capable.Many of the most-cited AI scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell, argue that AI is approaching human-like (AGI) and superhuman cognitive capabilities (ASI) and could endanger human civilization if misaligned.AI alignment is a subfield of AI safety, the study of how to build safe AI systems. Other subfields of AI safety include robustness, monitoring, and capability control. Research challenges in alignment include instilling complex values in AI, developing honest AI, scalable oversight, auditing and interpreting AI models, and preventing emergent AI behaviors like power-seeking. Alignment research has connections to interpretability research, (adversarial) robustness, anomaly detection, calibrated uncertainty, formal verification, preference learning, safety-critical engineering, game theory, algorithmic fairness, and social sciences.
Ai Carina Uemura (植村 愛 カリーナ, Uemura Ai Karīna, born November 2, 1981), known mononymously as Ai (Japanese pronunciation: [ai], stylized as AI or A.I. ), is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, spokeswoman, and actress. Born in Los Angeles, California, Ai moved to Kagoshima, at age 4. Motivated to become a singer, Ai returned to Los Angeles during her adolescence, attending the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. While in Los Angeles, Ai performed as part of a gospel choir at a Mary J. Blige concert and appeared as a backup dancer in Janet Jackson's music video, "Go Deep". She briefly joined the Asian girl group SX4 in 1999 until she graduated high school.After being discovered by BMG in 2000, Ai relocated to Japan and released her debut album, My Name is Ai (2001), to very little commercial success. Signing to Def Jam Japan in 2002, Ai became the first woman signed to the label. She released two studio albums under the label, Original Ai (2003) and 2004 Ai. With the release of her third studio album, Ai rose to mainstream prominence in Japan. Transferring to Island Records, Ai released her fourth studio album, Mic-a-Holic Ai (2005). Its second single "Story" became one of the biggest singles of the 2000s in Japan, peaking at number 8 on the Japanese Oricon singles chart, and was the sixth single in history to receive a triple million digital certification by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ).Ai's fifth studio album, What's Goin' On Ai (2006), featured the top-ten singles "Believe" and "I Wanna Know", the latter receiving a Gold certification from the RIAJ. Her sixth studio album, Don't Stop Ai (2007) saw similar success, which received a Gold certification. In 2009, she released her seventh studio album, Viva Ai, which charted in the top ten of the Japanese Oricon albums chart. Ai's compilation album, Best Ai (2009), became her first number one album and was certified Platinum. In 2010, she released her eighth studio album, The Last Ai, which marked her last release under Island Records.In 2011, Ai left Universal Music Group and signed a global publishing deal with EMI. Her Gold certified ninth studio album Independent (2012) served as her international debut and first release under EMI Music Japan. To promote the album, Ai toured in Japan and in Los Angeles. Her tenth studio album Moriagaro (2013) marked her first release under EMI Records Japan following EMI Music Japan's absorption into Universal Music Japan as a sublabel. Her fourth compilation album, The Best (2015) peaked at number 3 on the Oricon Albums chart and number 2 on the Billboard Japan Hot Albums chart, later being certified Gold by the RIAJ. Its successor, The Feat. Best (2016) charted within the top 30 of both the Japan Hot Albums and Oricon Albums chart.Ai's eleventh studio album, Wa to Yo (2017) experimented with traditional Japanese and electronic sounds. Its second single, "Kira Kira" was nominated for the Grand Prix award and won the Excellent Works Award at the 59th Japan Records Awards. Her sixth compilation album Kansha!!!!! - Thank You for 20 Years New and Best (2019) was issued to celebrate her twenty years in the music industry. Further celebrating her twenty-year anniversary, Ai released the extended plays It's All Me, Vol. 1 (2020) and It's All Me, Vol. 2 (2021). Ai's twelfth studio album, Dream (2022), included the single "Aldebaran", the theme song of the Japanese drama, Come Come Everybody. The song received critical acclaim and was Ai's first song in five years to appear on the Billboard Japan Hot 100. Ai released her thirteenth studio album, Respect All (2023), within the next year.
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