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.

  • Sandbar_Trekker@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    4 hours 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.

    • Jiral@lemmy.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      The problem is not an “AI company” but Google being evil and AI making scamming so much more efficient. I had the habit of using youtube as music player in the background (with ublock of course). This has become incredibly miserable and I finall freed myself from that and rather pay qobuz a decent amount of money from now one, for much better quality and much more money actually ending up with the artists and no scam BS like the above. Oh and also active removal of AI music slop, in case it even makes it there.

    • SillyDude@lemmy.zipEnglish
      13·
      3 hours ago

      I remember I like 2007 YouTube removed one of my videos I made of a glitch in runescape because some else also posted a video and they copyright struke my videoto remove it. I made the video, with my character, just showing the same glitch. There were zero resources to fight it.