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N.Y.C. Says Airbn-bye + How Far Would You Go for a GPU? + The A.I. Songs of the Summer

2023/8/25
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Casey Newton: AI音乐的兴起引发了关于版权和收益分配的争议。AI生成的Drake歌曲“Heart on My Sleeve”的流行引发了版权争议，YouTube和唱片公司就AI音乐的版权和收益分配问题存在争议。AI合成语音技术的进步使得AI音乐创作更加容易，但同时也带来了版权问题。YouTube和环球音乐集团合作推出“音乐AI孵化器”项目，旨在规范AI音乐的使用和收益分配。YouTube计划开发类似于Content ID的系统来管理AI生成的音乐，但此举可能对小型创作者不利。 Kevin Roose: Kevin Roose与Casey Newton讨论了AI音乐的兴起以及由此引发的版权和收益分配问题。他们分析了YouTube和Google对AI的不同处理方式，指出YouTube更注重保护音乐家权益，而Google则利用网络文本数据训练AI模型，但未对内容提供者进行补偿。他们认为，这种差异源于YouTube和Google在各自领域中的权力差异。

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Are New York City’s new rules for short-term rentals like Airbnb effectively a ban? And will they accomplish what proponents want them to? Then, The New York Times tech reporter Erin Griffith on Silicon Valley’s mad dash for GPUs. And finally, we take stock of the A.I. songs of the summer and discuss YouTube and Universal Music Group’s plan to make synthetic voices profitable.

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Erin Griffith) is a New York Times journalist based in the San Francisco bureau, where she reports on technology start-ups and venture capital.

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New York City’s new regulations for short-term rentals) go into effect soon.

Start-ups are on a “desperate hunt)” for GPUs. (There’s even a song) about it.)

Creators are using A.I. voices to imitate Freddie Mercury), Johnny Cash), Eric Cartman) from “South Park,” and others.

Google and YouTube have different approaches) to compensating creators whose work is used to train A.I. tools.