More than 200 artists have spoken out in an open letter against the abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) in the music industry. The protest is directed against services that can generate entire songs on text commands, which also imitate the style and voice of well-known artists.
“If AI is used irresponsibly, it poses an enormous threat to the protection of our privacy, our identity, our music and our livelihood,” the artists complain in the letter. Some platforms and developers are using AI to sabotage creativity and undermine artists, songwriters, musicians and rights holders.