As artificial intelligence continues to surge ahead, Australia’s creative industries have told a senate inquiry they want laws to protect their livelihoods. Screen music composers are one of those groups, fearing at least part of their sector will be replaced by AI.
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00:00Josh Hogan has devoted his life to music. He's played in orchestras and toured with
00:10bands. These days he's best known for producing award-winning soundtracks for film and TV
00:20with collaborator Ned Beckley.
00:22People know that I'll put my heart and soul into that act of creating music.
00:27Qualities which he believes will always give humans the edge over machines. But still,
00:33he's shocked by the lightning pace of AI.
00:36It's frightening. This is AI generated. It sounds like a classic Miles Davis record.
00:46This is how many of the AI music platforms work. You just pop in a couple of prompts
00:51and they'll create a song within seconds. But it's how these models were created that's
00:56contentious. Major record labels are now trying to sue AI companies alleging copyright
01:03breaches.
01:04And here in Australia, screen composers have told a Senate select committee that they want
01:08laws to ensure their industry is enhanced by AI rather than replaced by it, and that
01:15permission be sought for the use of composers' work by AI companies.
01:20Udio, a prominent new AI music platform, agreed to do an interview from their base in New
01:26York.
01:27How do you respond to these claims that you've illegally harvested music subject to copyright
01:32to train your model?
01:34We've built a model trained on publicly available data, and we view this as the right way to
01:42build technologies that are going to enable new forms of creation.
01:46What has always driven forward original creations in music has been artists always looking to
01:51push the boundaries, and I don't think that that will change, even with AI.
01:58We're going to have to ask the question, what is the work of making things? What is the
02:02work of creativity? And is that something that a human does?
02:07A transformative tool or a threat to the creation of music as we know it.