#Copyright#AI#GenerativeAI#GeneratedMusic#Music#Udio: "It’s not my intention in this article to highlight examples of regurgitation of copyrighted material, with a view to suggesting this regurgitation constitutes copyright infringement. The question that is much more important than regurgitation, in my view, is what models like Udio’s are trained on.
There are many people, myself included, who think that training generative AI models on copyrighted work without permission at all constitutes copyright infringement, whether material from the training set is regurgitated in the output or not.
When likenesses to copyrighted music show up in the outputs of AI music generation systems, there are generally three possibilities: either it is chance (this is of course not impossible), or the systems were trained on copyrighted music with licenses to do so, or they were trained on copyrighted music without licenses in place.
If the models used in Udio’s product are trained on copyrighted work, it is possible they have licenses in place with rightsholders that permit them to train on the copyrighted work whose likenesses are found in these examples.
