TECH - Don't Train AI On Our Content And Artists Sony Warns AI Companies | Benzinga
Sony Group Corp's (NYSE:SONY) Sony Music Group, one of the world's largest record labels, has issued a stark warning to artificial intelligence companies and music streaming services.
Sony Music Publishing (SMP) and Sony Music Entertainment (SME), on behalf of themselves and their wholly owned or controlled affiliates, said they prohibit and opt out of any text or data mining, web scraping or similar reproductions, extractions or uses of any SME and SMP content for any purposes, including in relation to training, developing or commercializing any AI system.
The label, representing artists like Lil Nas X and Celine Dion, has directed over 700 companies to refrain from using its content without explicit authorization.
Sony aims to safeguard its intellectual property, including album art, metadata, compositions, and lyrics, from being exploited to train AI models.
Unauthorized usage of their content for AI development denies both ...