Source: CCTV Finance
Recently, on some online platforms, "AI (artificial intelligence) singers" have sung a number of well-known songs. At a time when AI technology is becoming more and more mature, how should we view these problems? What new risks and challenges will it bring?
"AI singers" became popular on the Internet or were involved in multiple infringements
Some of the music heard on the Internet may not be sung by the singer himself, but generated by netizens through artificial intelligence technology. As can be seen on the video website, recently, a virtual singer covered dozens of songs, and many videos have exceeded one million views.
Beijing citizen: At first, I thought it was sung by real people, but I kept brushing up on many songs, but then I found that they were all sung by AI (artificial intelligence).
Beijing citizen: It really resembles the song sung by the singer's original voice.
While "AI singers" became popular on the Internet, they also spawned a series of new problems. In the absence of relevant authorization, the use of these songs is suspected of infringement has become the focus of attention.
You Yunting, senior partner of Shanghai Dabang Law Firm: An individual's name, portrait and voice all fall within the scope of personality rights protection, and unauthorized use is suspected of infringement. The lyrics, song, corresponding accompaniment tape, and original singing of a song, if you want to use it, without authorization, are also suspected of infringement.
In addition, generating music, pictures or text through artificial intelligence technology requires collecting a lot of data and training. Experts said that if data training is carried out in the form of pickpocketing without authorization, there may also be legal risks.
Ning Xuanfeng, managing partner of the compliance practice department of King & Wood Mallesons: If you cleanse, extract features and label data, you may infringe on the data owner's right to compile, adapt, and translate.
Generative Artificial Intelligence There is a future if there is a specification
In April this year, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued the Measures for the Administration of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services (Draft for Comments), which proposed that organizations and individuals that use generative AI products to provide services such as chat and text, image, and voice generation should assume the responsibility of producers of content generated by the products; Where it is discovered or known that the generated text, pictures, sounds, videos, etc. infringe upon others' portrait rights, reputation rights, personal privacy, or trade secrets, the generation shall be stopped to prevent the harm from continuing.
Zeng Yi, director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Governance, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences: Artificial intelligence is a technology that empowers society, and we should establish a relatively complete regulatory system. The people involved are not only the relevant government management departments, or the technical management departments, but also the public, the media, and every stakeholder has responsibilities and obligations.