Subj : Re: Rick Beato
To   : Ogg
From : Avon
Date : Mon May 15 2023 11:36:44

On 14 May 2023 at 08:21a, Ogg pondered and said...
 
 Og> Rick Beato thinks that listeners won't care, and compared the  
 Og> trend to tape machines being replaced by digital recorders, and  
 Og> speaker/amps replaced by a simple laptop - but that's  
 Og> different. That gear is simply the medium that delivers the  
 Og> music material.  But creating SOURCE material that intentially  
 Og> capitalizes on an existing artists "sound" and style for the  
 Og> purposes of profit, without the original person's permission,  
 Og> should be prohibited.  People SHOULD care.

good points and ones that I agree with.

 Og> Beato makes a brief comment on someone's creation of an  
 Og> artifical female singer's voice and that creator's stipulation  
 Og> that the voice is free to use by anyone as long as the creator  
 Og> gets 50% of the income.

the trick becomes how does the artist even know their likeness (in sound terms) is being used?

 Og> Maybe this is just an exploratory fad.  If the fake or AI  
 Og> material is labeled as such, maybe the public will grow tired  
 Og> of it after a while and yearn for real music and real artists.

If what it sounds like sounds artificial then perhaps yes, but the alarm bells for all is that this stuff sounds very close to the original artist..

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going'
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