This is true in the art industry as well. Many outsourced artists from third world countries are exploited with unreasonable wages and long hours
Comment on US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The best part about this is that UMG WMG and SMG all simultaneously went “you can’t take an artist’s life work and exploit it, that’s unfair, it’s OUR job to take an artist’s life’s work and exploit it”
pavnilschanda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 2 months ago
I mean yes to the sentiment but it would be quite a bit different if these artists signed a distribution contract with the AI company saying they got a miniscule percentage of royalties for every track somebody generated or even licensed this music to train on whatsoever.