Folk musician Murphy Campbell found herself at the center of a major ordeal when an entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated imitations of her music to every major music platform, then used her recordings to strip her of her own income. According to sources, the scheme worked like this: someone fed YouTube videos of ... Read more

As crappy as it sounds.

      • hayvan@piefed.worldEnglish
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        20 days ago

        More importantly, platforms don’t respect it. Any malicious outside actor shouldn’t be allowed to their malice.

    • minorkeys@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Doesn’t even matter. The systems they built for copyright enforcement are absolute shit and easily abused if you have a lot of money, as designed. And with AI added to the mix, it’s all automated so none of it will work as it should and they don’t care to fix it. Disney or whoever can just launch constant copyright claims and cripple small IP owners even when they’re completely in the wrong.

  • Sandbar_Trekker@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Misleading title. This isn’t an “AI Company”. As far as I can tell, it’s some scammer that used AI Tools to create similar music and then copyright strike the original artist to steal their revenue.

    The major issue here is how YouTube handles these claims. From the article:

    YouTube’s dispute process places enormous trust in whoever files the claim, with little built-in protection for independent artists who lack legal resources.

    This isn’t something new and was already being done before AI tools were available.