In my morning Ben's Bites email, I discovered AI radio – purely AI-generated songs on a website called artificialintelligenceradio.com.

Pop open a browser window for a sample of the real Kanye West's Touch the Sky

Now, compare it to the AI version of Kanye West's Touch the Sky below:

If you are not really familiar with the artist? It sounds legit. Compare any artist on aihits.co with a recording from the real artist. It's close enough to the untrained ear to pass. AI-music that sounds like your favorite artists – minus consent, payment, representation, etc. violates copyright law. The question is whether the law will protect artists – or decide that conceptually, AI is fair use. What seems obvious to artists doesn't seem to be so obvious to the courts.

AI technology, by design, needs to be fed before it can create. The Internet provides an endless buffet to repurpose – at light speed. When I asked FastGPT, "Who is Holly Valero?" I got the answer back in a flash. About 90% of it is correct-ish. But what's wrong is really wrong.

Writers who depend upon AI will spread this misinformation, AI will re-scrape that, and before you know it, the data devolves into multiple versions of an initially inaccurate truth that is impossible to correct.

Instagram artists may want to make their accounts private, watermark images, and limit the amount of work available online. There's also the Glaze Project – an academic research group of PhD students and professors exploring ethical security for visual arts. Glaze analyzes your art, and generates a modified version (with barely visible changes). This "cloaked" image disrupts AI mimicry process.

For audio artists, resources are limited – at the moment.

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