AI roils the job landscape
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Music is the next legal frontier AI will confront
The music industry is confronting a litany of AI-related issues at light speed.
Since the release and takedown of “Heart on My Sleeve,” which featured AI voices mimicking Drake and The Weeknd, the internet has been flooded with additional AI-made Drake songs.
Expect each of these to test legal waters around what is fair use, and what is copyrighted
Josh Constine, a VC at SignalFire, puts it succinctly: “Google is caught between an AI rock and a copyright hard place. Either the AI Drake song trained on copyrighted data is fair use, YouTube floods with this content, and labels panic Or it’s infringement, which means Google’s Bard AI is illegal.”
Adding to the conversation: musician Grimes has proclaimed anyone can use her voice for AI-generated songs, and she’d split 50% of royalties.
An ongoing Andy Warhol copyright case could also have implications for generative AI, including AI music.
Google’s challenges continue
Poor Google. Since Bard’s tepid launch they can’t seem to catch a break, and new reports highlight exactly how daunting the AI race will be for them:
Mindshare about Bard remains low relative to OpenAI and Bing. According to Google Trends, ChatGPT is 8.3x more popular than Bing and 33x more popular than Bard.
Google’s recent merging of Google Brain and Deepmind into a single AI-focused Google Deepmind team will face steep challenges. According to Google insiders, Deepmind has historically functioned very independently, thinking about Nobel prize-worthy problems, while Google Brain has operated with indecisive leadership. For the two teams to merge and move quickly to match OpenAI’s focus and speed will be a daunting task.
AI roils the job landscape
Transformative technology has historically been a net benefit for society and GDP, but not without its intermediate pain. This is playing out at warp speed across multiple professions as AI’s power rapidly forces transformation.
Dropbox announced a 16% headcount cut, citing AI as one of the reasons behind the significant layoff. What’s notable: this is a profitable, public tech company whose financial metrics have only improved in recent years. For AI initiatives, Dropbox is doubling down — but for mature teams, they’re making cuts. Expect this to be the broad theme of tech as AI surges to the forefront.
Kenyan ghostwriters, who normally help US college students write essays, are losing jobs to ChatGPT. Rest of World reports that many ghostwriters have seen up to 50% decrease in work as AI has reduced demand for human writers.
A Stanford/MIT study showed that GPT-3 software helped customer service agents perform as much as 35% better, portending big shifts in knowledge worker jobs as AI makes its way into numerous industries
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