AI Music Datasets Raise Alarm for Reggae, Dancehall and Black Music Creators
- RiddimStyle Staff Writer
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New reporting shows millions of songs circulating in AI training datasets, including reggae and dancehall catalogues.
The Atlantic reported in June that four large music datasets containing millions of tracks have been circulating within AI-development communities.
It was reported that reggae and dancehall artists, including Vybz Kartel, Shenseea, Spice, Popcaan, Shaggy, Masicka and Rvssian, appeared in searches of those datasets.
AI training is not only a technology issue. It is an intellectual property, authorship and cultural extraction issue. Reggae, dancehall, hip-hop, R&B and Afrobeats are built on distinctive voices, riddims, flows, drum patterns and cultural codes.
Any AI system trained on those catalogues without consent risks repeating older patterns of exploitation under a new technological language.
New wave artist BLVK H3RO recently posted on social media his concerns about the future of the business and viable business models going forward. He declared that, going forward, music will lose its value.
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