Two weeks after UK musicians launched a campaign opposing a proposed British AI law—one that would allow tech companies to train AI on their content by default unless they actively opt out—concerns over creators’ rights continue to gain traction. Meanwhile, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently expressed outrage over the Chinese AI engine DeepSeek allegedly training on OpenAI’s intellectual property without permission, highlighting the ongoing debate over ethical AI development.
A Sunday Financial Times story this week revealed that Sony has filed over 75,000 takedown requests to remove AI-generated deepfake songs that closely mimic the voices of its biggest artists, including Harry Styles, Beyoncé, and Queen. In response to this growing concern, the CEO of San Francisco-based AI company Anthropic warned at an international event that Chinese bad actors are attempting to steal $100 million worth of AI trade secrets—information that, in his words, is just “a few lines of code” away from being compromised.
This escalating battle over copyright feels eerily similar to the Napster era of 25 years ago, when the music and film industries struggled to combat rampant peer-to-peer file sharing. Today, AI technology is advancing faster than laws and social norms can keep up, leaving governments scrambling to regulate it.
Even though the regulation from governments worldwide is uneven at best, there are signs of change. As US companies complain of espionage, two courts in China have ruled that AI images are eligible for copyright protection, which is more protection than they get in the United States.
The key question now is whether policymakers will act swiftly enough to protect creators before AI-driven content reshapes the entire cultural and economic landscape.
Audioshake AI Releases Audio Separation Tool
The five-year-old audio Ai company has released a tool called Multi-Speaker, which will break an audio track down into different channels. For any podcast producer that’s trying to remove copyrighted audio or a morning show producer making a best-of promo from jumbled audio, this may be the tool. The demo shows two people talking over each other and the Audioshake tool separating the voices flawlessly. Even better, the tool is integrated into the Wondercraft AI audio production tool. [demo video | details]
DuckDuckGo Launches Anonymous AI Queries
The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has expanded its AI offerings by providing free, anonymous access to popular AI chatbots through Duck.ai, allowing users private interactions without needing an account. Users can customize or disable AI-generated answers entirely, ensuring a privacy-oriented search experience tailored to individual preferences. [details]
Gemini’s New Model Supports Text-Based Image Manipulation
Inside Google’s AI Studio is a new model — Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental — that allows users to modify images with a text prompt. Upload a photo and tell Gemini what you want it to do, from removing a photo bomber to changing a facial expression, and it will output a pretty decent modification. Best of all, the model is available to all users for free.
On the right is the before-and-after of the prompt, “Give the dog in this photo a toothy smile.”
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