CEOs, labor activists, journalists and media industry insiders gathered in Washington, D.C. last week to discuss the challenges to creative industries with the rise of artificial intelligence with members of the Senate. Particularly, those in the creative industries sought to discuss issues of transparency of AI models and what the evolving systems of artificially generated content mean for copyright and intellectual property.
and Google’s Bard learn based on the content fed to them – primarily ‘left-leaning’ journalism in the case of the former – musicians are questioning what sources generative AI programs are learning from in order to develop. For example, if a song is totally generated by an AI program, artists want to know if it was trained using the music of The Beatles or Michael Jackson or Cher – and what does the use of that catalog as a modeling basis mean for the copyright holders of that music as well as the generated musi