Fake it till you make it? Not on our watch, says UK music industry
2024-03-18
Euronews English
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The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has threatened legal action against Jammable (formerly Voicify), an AI platform offering thousands of unlicensed voice models to clone famous artists' voices for deepfake music. The service's unauthorized use of copyrighted material has led to industry backlash and removal of some AI-generated models.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The AI system in question is a deepfake voice cloning technology used to imitate artists' voices. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) alleges that the system was trained using copyrighted works without authorization, constituting a breach of intellectual property rights. This is a direct violation of legal protections for artists' creative works, fulfilling the criteria for an AI Incident under the category of violations of intellectual property rights. The legal proceedings and the complaint indicate that harm has occurred or is ongoing due to the unauthorized use of copyrighted material in the AI system's development and deployment.[AI generated]