Has there been any comment on how Aiva plans to protect against users uploading copyrighted music as reference? AI/ML algorithms like deep neural networks are deterministic (i.e., given the same input parameters, training data, etc) it will generate the same results. If I take a song owned by AC/DC and input into a specified algorithm to generate something new, the output is still owned by AC/DC. It would be no different than just putting the song through a filter. In fact, you can model a neural network as a highly dimensional non-linear filter. So, if someone put my music into Aiva and generated a hit song, I would likely be in the right to sue them.
As an aside, in my day gig, I am founder of a tech company that uses real-time AI/ML to automate sensor processing tasks (video, RF, etc.). Typically, these are tasks no human wants to do, or has the time to do. Legally, I cannot take video owned by someone else, and create training/validation data for commercial gain, without the owner of said videos approval (and likely required payment). I can only use "publicly" available data for free without permission.
What prevents a user of Aiva from uploading a reference track owned by someone else?
Legal questions aside, the use of AI/ML for creating music and art end-to-end is a cool demo of the tech, but hard to see how it is will have a net positive impact on our lives and civilizations. I think humans (even coders) get a large part of their satisfaction from creating. Of course, I cannot imagine paying anything to go see my favorite robot artists perform at Red Rocks. People will always enjoy playing music, even if AI takes away the composing side.
