Sony Says It Has Already Taken Down More Than 75,000 AI Deepfake Songs

Sony is locked in a battle against AI generated deepfake songs that copy some of its most famous artists, including Harry Styles and Beyoncé. The company says it has already identified and taken down more than 75,000 songs from online platforms that mimic its artists in fake songs. The company says the number is likely just a fraction of the AI deepfakes online. The proliferation of deepfake songs has caused “direct commercial harm to legitimate recording artists, including UK artists,” the company said in a submission to the government there, which is considering new copyright laws that would enable training on artist material in AI models. Generative AI, namely chatbots like ChatGPT, still produce a lot of errors and wholly made-up information. Image and audio generation models generally require less precision than producing text. A dog can vary a lot in its appearance, for instance, while ChatGPT should not tell a user that “1+1 = blueberry.” Proponents believe that AI generation ... Read full article.