Music icon Sir Paul McCartney has turn out to be the most recent artist to hitch the monitor checklist of a silent album protesting unfair AI practices in leisure organised by former Stability AI lead Ed Newton-Rex.
Is This What We Need is a silent album initially launched in February consisting solely of silent tracks with artists together with Damon Albarn, Kate Bush and Hans Zimmer attaching their names to the challenge to protest the UK authorities’s proposed plan to remove copyright protections for inventive works within the case of AI coaching.
McCartney has turn out to be the most recent artist to hitch the challenge, with the previous Beatles star offering a bonus monitor of silence for the vinyl version of the report.
“We’re extremely grateful to Paul McCartney for offering a brand new (silent) bonus monitor for the vinyl version and to the various UK musicians concerned within the album,” wrote Newton-Rex in a social media publish.
“The monitor checklist spells out a easy message: “The British Authorities Should Not Legalise Music Theft To Profit AI Corporations”. All income go to the unbelievable charity Assist Musicians.”
Newton-Rex was a senior worker at London-based AI unicorn Stability, the place he led the agency’s audio workforce.
He resigned in 2023 over the corporate’s stance on utilizing copyrighted info to coach its AI fashions and has since turn out to be one of many main voices in honest practices concerning AI and copyright.
Newton-Rex based the non-profit Pretty Skilled, which advocates for such practices amongst AI companies.
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