Marsha Blackburn on Content Creators and AI Issues
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tn.) shared lessons learned from Tuesday’s AI hearings with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. She also revealed what next steps she and her colleagues are preparing to take to protect consumer data amid the AI boom.
Exclusive: Nashville musicians are increasingly concerned that the increasing complexity of artificial intelligence could threaten their lives, Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn warned this week. .
“We met with the Nashville Technology Council a few weeks ago and spoke with a number of musicians who use AI to imitate their voices and not steal the lyrics to their songs. You can join ChatGPT,” Blackburn told Fox News Digital during an interview in the Senate office.
ChatGPT “can pull right up and lie down with that voice. Give me a voice like Garth Brooks. Give me a voice like Reba McIntyre singing,” the senator said.
“And it is through these platforms that exist that we are able to acquire such a generation … and that means that artists do not make money, thus depriving them of their constitutional right to benefit from their work.” That’s going to happen,” Blackburn added.
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Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing in Washington, DC, March 16, 2023. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
As AI continues to permeate many aspects of everyday life, concerns about copyright ownership for musicians, and content creators as a whole, are growing. This includes clips of his songs shared on social media that look like samples of artists like Drake, but are actually all generated by AI technology.
Blackburn raised these issues at a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, when members of both sides questioned OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the rapidly advancing AI field. bottom. The hearing featured an example of AI capabilities that Blackburn and Songwriters are concerned about.
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) opened the hearing with an AI-generated voice that sounded like he was reading part of an AI-generated opening statement.
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“As with consumer data, we can promise not to train AI models on the copyrighted works of artists and songwriters, or to use their voices or likenesses without their prior consent. Do you?” Blackburn asked Altman.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will speak at a Senate hearing on Tuesday. (Getty)
Altman didn’t give her a direct answer, but downplayed the influence of OpenAI’s jukebox app, which uses AI to generate music.
“Jukeboxes don’t get a lot of attention or use, they just come out to show what’s possible,” he says.
Referring to AI, he said, “We believe content creators and content owners need to benefit from this technology.” “Exactly what the economic model will be, we’re still talking to artists and content owners about what they want. I think there’s a lot of potential for this to happen. But it’s very clear. And whatever the law is, the right thing to do is to enable people to reap the greatest benefits from this new technology. ”
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ChatGPT “can pull right up and lie down with that voice. Give me a voice like Garth Brooks (pictured). Give me a voice like Reba McIntyre singing,” Blackburn said. . (Shannon Finney)
Blackburn told Fox News Digital that she wasn’t happy with Altman’s response.
“I think he showed he was aware of those concerns, but he didn’t have an answer,” she said. “And that would mean that Congress would have to step in and look for similar situations.
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“He didn’t seem to know what the music industry was going through with Napster. Napster collected the songs and put them out, but the artists didn’t get any money. know” [Jukebox]”And we are very concerned that such formats will be commercialized, even if not right now,” she said.
