Silent AI Protest Album: Stream "Is This What We Want?" on Spotify & Support Artists
Stream the silent AI protest album "Is This What We Want?" on Spotify and support artists against AI music theft.
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Silent AI Protest Album: Stream "Is This What We Want?" on Spotify & Support Artists
What do you get when you put Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, and Damon Albarn into a room? A silent, ambient music protest album, of course. On Tuesday February 25, over 1000 artists banded together in a moving protest against a UK government proposal that would allow AI developers to use copy-righted music from creative professionals to train algorithms and other AI models such as ChatGPT and Open AI - unless right holders choose to opt-out. Just when I thought the UK government couldn’t get more whack, lo and behold, it just did. (Image credit: Getty Images/Spotify/Future) The protest album, titled Is This What We Want? is now available to stream on platforms like Spotify and Tidal. It is a 12-song project consisting of ambient sound recordings from inside empty recording studios and other performance spaces, intending to shed light on the possible impact the proposal will have on creative livelihoods and the UK music industry. It’s believed that one of the songs was recorded at Kate Bush’s …
