14 August

So often you will see the claim that AI is ‘stealing’ the work of artists, like writers and musicians. I think that’s deeply and self-servingly dishonest. Just as AI doesn’t store words, books or publications and then recombine them (it’s not plagiarism), it also doesn’t store music and recombine it. Training is not stealing. It’s learning. It’s a miraculously creative act, absorbing vast numbers of works and figuring out the patterns that are common to them. Then using those patterns to *create* new music. Both the training and the composition are creative acts.