And we have a president elect who said we had airports in the 1700s (among a million other lies). Doesn't help when those at the top are so stupid and deceptive.
There was a recent news story where a punk band called the Dead Boys wanted their current singer to sing with the cadence of their previous, deceased singer. They were then going to wrap the old singer's voice around it with AI and call it a "tribute album." The current singer said "no" and quit the band! Good for him!
This has been done to me. I run invite-only livestream painting tutorials (on another platform). Someone, a member who I wasn't (yet?) able to identify, started putting my tutorials with another face and a different room in the background on their YT channel and further used computer-generated views and likes. Since I don't do tutorials on YT I now start all my streams with a canvas that has the words "If you are seeing this on any platform other than [redacted because YT will no doubt take it down if I name it here] it is FAKE". I doubt their AI can airbrush that out and still show my fake-face doppelganger doing the actual painting. At least that's my hope. If they find a way round it I will have to interject in the streams every few minutes to say something like "By the way there are no ads in my shows and no editing, it's all live including the chat, so if you see an ad or the picture suddenly jumps, you're looking at a bootleg video, probably with someone else's face on it", but I really don't want to have to do that because my students pay a membership fee to watch and listen to me painting, they don't pay to listen to me complaining about fraud.
Fil -- Your work with exposing abuse in autotuning, prerecorded tracking and lip-synching in purportedly live performances, and most recently, the outright fraud being perpetrated using artificial intelligence, is ground-breaking and incredibly important. You are the Woodward and Bernstein of the music industry. Keep up the great work. P.S. This comment was not generated using artificial intelligence, just the usual kind.
Ultimately I agree with you yet provide a caveat. Context matters. That is Tech is Tech,how use use it is another!! Specifically using tech to decieve people that they are receiving a 'Live Perfomance' which they paid for yet aren't,that's the issue. When it comes down to it I don't think most give a damn how Music,Movies or Art is Generated,we like what we like. Here is really my point. Many like me have grown up watching Star Trek & watched with Jaws agape with every Holo-Deck Scene!! The idea that you can just say... *"Computer,Generate a Live Sympony Concert of a Fictitious Orchestra playing their Original Works."* ...is Awesome!! Just like that a whole Concert Hall with Stage,Instrumentalists & all appears right in front of you!!!!😵🤯 Point is, *All the Field Workers of old viewed Tractors & Industrialized Farming equipment Negatively! Now as Industrialisation gives Way to Automation,it too faces the same scrutiny by those who only choose to focus on the Negatives!* Being able to create by Direct Speech & Thought input is extremely Powerful & Benefitial. *Sadly it will prove to be quite Destructive to those operating on 'Currency' Based Resource Management Systems!* Currency is a hindrance to True Freedom,which Automation could Provide. *What we 'Self Proclaimed' 1st World Nation's suffer from is a Value Placement Dissorder caused by a Lack of Technolgical Awareness & General Missinformation!!*
We've reached a point where fake AI musicians are going to be making more money than talented, legitimate, musically gifted individuals. Maybe even more money than a lot of established artists.
Yes, but the fake musicians will be created by bots, so the bots will be making the money. Except the money will be cyber coin and if the coin crashes the bots will go bankrupt...unless they go to Russia where the Russian bots are actually created by Chinese bots. The rest of us...will be unemployed. 😭
@@ernies8828 the porn industry will soon be a huge chaos, people will create fake videos with the face, voice and even ambients of their choice. Nobody will be safe from malicious/revenge porn AI creations
We can start simply by petitioning RUclips to add "Undisclosed AI" to the report list. Channels that use AI for views without disclosing it or which use a substantial amount of another's work without permission should be shut down and sued.
RUclips are totally censored. Comments on certain subjects are deleted and users are banned and shadow banned already. Prtitioning YT does nothing. They don't care.
RUclips is drowning in completely AI edited videos made by automated video generation tools that just spews out spam videos... It take 3 seconds top make a video with those tools complete with video clips, still pictures, subtitles and AI voice narrating. Most people do not understand that these horrible bad videos is created automatically and watch them ...
Years ago, soon after Forrest Gump was released, there was a program on the Discovery Channel showing how they created the 'handshake' scenes that made it appear Forrest was really shaking hands with JFK or LBJ. My husband and I, both baby boomers and he a Viet Nam Vet, looked at each other and said: "There it is. This is the last time you can ever believe anything you see or hear unless you are truly in person."
but in a few period of time not even if you ARE in person, you won.t be able to tell any more. a.i is given permission now to create better a.i. and it advances at a pace that our limited brains won.t understand. it.s the first time i truely believe that the end is near
remember the TANG memos Dan Rather swore he had about George Bush's service? he got greedy. a more competent forger might have won that election for Kerry. Now... do 2020.
There's a clothing designer, Cassey Ho, who not long ago made a video showing how someone has stolen her ads & placed an AI face on her body to sell their knock-off clothes of her designs. So they've stolen her designs, her ads, and her body! Outrageous & horrifying 😡
The Chinese have been doing this for over a decade, and sellers on Amazon have been complaining that their products are being jacked for cheap lower priced products. My thing is if we make American products 'made in China" how do we not expect them to eventually develop their own economic integrity?
It's not just musicians, it's actors etc.. Even voiceover artists can have their voices sampled for purposes they'd not consent to, and revenues they'll never get.
actually soon you will be able to make all the content you want to consume by yourself on your own computer, you will tell AI what you want to watch or view and it will create it perfectly tailored for you, kind of like the holodeck on Star Trek
Good eye 👍. As a bass player of 30 years, I had no idea this was going on. I will now start paying attention using the items you pointed out. The first AI with blonde hair, her eyelids don't move.
Being a musician my whole life and all the hard work I put into it over the years and the sacrifices have made I'm afraid to put any music out any more to just get stolen
I do not at all as in 19, I had a meeting with a guy who needed a singer for his tune which he actually bought off CL for $100.00. I saw where this was as going and just thought of the song title by The Who: "All this Music...(can't finish the title..too sad.) I told him I was not happy singing to a song someone bought off Craigslist in order to call it his own.
I’ve been considering recording my own music and getting it out. But I’ve heard some scary stories about the people behind AI stealing music from other musicians who have put in their own hard work.
Don't be. You can only do what you can do. This is certainly shameful, but it's what's happening. All you can do is keep plugging along and hope people like it. I'm facing the same thing in a related field. I retired not long ago, so I won't be robbed as much as I would be now, but I still will continue to create hope for the best. It's all I CAN do. It's all YOU can do. It's all the more shameful if your art is your living, and it sounds like yours is. Mine was and I guess I'm lucky to be out of it. I still love it, but I no longer DEPEND on it. Best wishes!
@@glamgal7106 It is very important of you do so to actually copyright your material with the copyright office. DO NOT poor man copyright your music. That will not be enough. You do not say whether you are in the U.S. or England or not, but when you register a song with the copyright office in the States, lyrics are registered with a form separate from the music itself which requires a separate form..and a separate cheque! Ppl stealing other artist's material has gone on for decades; AI has just merely made the practice easier to be anonymous; other than that, it is the same old song and dance as it were!
As a long time musician this is sickening . I can tell the fake videos pretty easily . I cant believe all the rave reviews ..wow babe youre one of the best . Most are just simps that dodnt even know theyre being duped . Damn shame !!
you won.t be able to tell in a few years. not even you. people created a.i. that creates more perfect a.i.... the" second coming" is near and ppl will fall for it. we are screwed and we did it to ourselves
Maybe a huge chunk of the likes and reviews on these ai videos are ALSO created by ai/bots meant to make the video look more popular and credible than it actually is.
Fakery should be called out every time. If we allow it to continue, we will never have reality in music again. How very sad! Thanks to you, Fil, we are at least being informed about all of these shenanigans! 😕🎸🎵
ALLOW it to continue? I don't think we have a chance of turning things around. It would have to be addressed case by case and by the time one gets taken care of, a thousand more will have popped up. And that's after the money had already been spent. Too little and definitely too late. It's sad, really.
Fake or not, are people still impressed with some vanilla "guitar player" playing another cover of 'Beat It' ?! Never mind the fact that most of these "guitarists" heavily rely on VSTs, Modelers & pro-tools in order to play in the first place. Seriously, for over a decade now, music has only been one step removed from AI. Most modern acts exploit music production software (triggers, time editing, pitch correction, auto-tune, samples) just to produce sterilized, dynamic-less trite that regurgitates ideas, tones,etc... Just my .02
This is a classic bubble waiting to burst. The ad revenue will dry up when the platforms become completely inundated with dumb AI stuff. There will be something that comes next, but it won't be hot asian AI girls singing your song.
Well done. Now I believe it’s 3:05 @mimisounds and 4:55 Larissa Liveir who have been AI manipulated. (allegedly imo) Maybe if you want to, go let the girls know or just give their YT a view.✌🏼
And is what people should do every time they saw fake AI... Dont wait ! Dont let them get views and naking money of that If everyone will do that they will not upload anymore ...well until AI will get too good at it that we will not be able to spot AI video from real one...as they gonna fix the fret and hair issue pretty soon😢
@@neoczy3249 the video platform, like RUclips, wouldn't give a toss...RUclips get billions from advertisers that want to sell their product, a small percentage of that goes to video creators, the platforms aren't going to cut off the hand that feeds them, so viral videos will continue to exist....and AI videos will continue to grow.
Recently my parents passed away and i had to sell the house and contents, most of the furniture was sold for pennies, we had a Yamaha piano that has always been serviced very well looked after, after trying to sell it with no interest whatsoever, someone made an offer and it went, i've been on marketplace to sell small items and browse, the number of musical instruments for sale boggled the mind, i was also amazed at the number of pianos, not only selling cheap but given away for free, it's sad but the music i grew up is not now anymore, music is dead. 😥😥😥😥
I've seen so many free pianos on Craigslist it's ridiculous; some are antiques; some are player pianos. I've even seen a few grand pianos for free. It's almost to the point where it's foolish to go out and actually buy one.
industries have been creatively bankrupt for years. AI will take over and normies shan't care - I've spoken to a few people that already share that sentiment. To be an enthusiast for real-people created art will make you an elitist/snob in the near future.
A huge part of the free piano thing is due to people looking to harvest the value of the real estate as immediately as possible. Same thing with all the other households... only, another big part of that is because there is an utter glut of second hand stuff... people are constantly emptying their houses out and moving out of state, at least here in California which has become nearly unlivable due to real estate prices. I have found so much good stuff, set out at the curb because people don't want to try to sell it. Imagine all the perfectly good stuff that just goes to the dump😢 now if only I had space for a free piano...
@@localbod Except that the eyes won't give it away anymore. I'm even starting to suspect that the whole number of fingers thing was something intentional...See, you are still better, you can spot the difference...
Thank you so much for exposing this travesty, i am obviously aware of AI but not the implications of fraud and plagiarism. This is nothing less than horrific, we will arrive at a stage where everything is questioned and falsehood will be supreme, genuine and fake will melt in to one. Bless you for this invaluable insight.
I'm properly grateful for having been about for some of those decades and extremely grateful for the creative signposts that made me aware of what came before - something that appears to be ever more in danger these days. The 00's weren't terrible, but the last decade or so, with some exceptions, has been a downward spiral. I'm glad I've still got my hard copies (vinyl, cassette, CD) of what once was and hopefully that will help my daughter discern musical reality from the fakery that is AI. The most worrying thing for me is that the AI will sterilise a fundamental joy of creativity and that joy is being able to create from and through your own self and on your own merits.
Thank God for Fil. I read an article in the news from a producer talked about Eddie Van Halen, and he said in the 90s there was no creative guitarists. Hence the lack of solos in the 90s. I'm just quoting.
@@pashon4percushon , In what context did he say that? A lot of guitarists were inspired by EVH, and, to some extent, copied his style. There were other innovative guitarists at that time (maybe more in the eighties, but still plenty in the nineties).
I’m so glad that I was a teenager in the second half of the 1960s, & was living in England where there were amazingly-gifted musicians throughout the 60s,70s,80s & 90s ….. real musicians playing real musical instruments, with real voices. I lived through some of the best music ever, & nowadays, in my early seventies, I only listen to the music I grew up with through those decades. I’m also a big fan of Elvis, & there are lots of videos of him singing from 1956 up until his death in 1977, & thanks to you, I know it would be almost impossible to auto tune Elvis. Fil, thanks for bringing this to the attention of those of us who know very little about what can be done with AI. You have just educated me. You are doing a great job.
those musicians you mention still stand in the shadows of the greats that preceded then: Schostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Ravel, Mahler, Holst, Smetana, Beethoven, Bach
@@everyonesalama4447 musicians create melodies, harmonies, progressions, so they are not performers of others' music which is simply channeling other musicians, and they are not lyricists writing down poetry with the intent to sing it. So many people confuse& conflate what a musician is. Jacob Collier is a modern musician born 1994, and there is virtually nobody born in his generation at that level. Taylor Swift is a singing lyricist, not a musician, even though she could probably pass some basic music theory tests, like millions of people can. I'm not denying there were notable musicians from the 50s-90s, Queen, Dylan, Jackson. Hans Zimmer is a musician even though he sits at a computer and composes film music. I would still argue that a singer is not a musician unless they are creating the melodies and harmonies written in musical notation according to music theory. Singing what you created is a different skill. Mozart was not a singer even though he wrote lots of songs, but we don't remember those singers today, just the musician.
The really sad part is the people who know nothing about music whatsoever would argue forever that you're just jealous and you don't know what you're talking when you point out to them that they're being scammed. Sadly enough RUclips is complicit in this because of the money in ad revenue.
The law does exist. Face Swapping without consent is actually illegal for the person who owns the face or the body. Theft of the music itself (the soundtrack) is enough to copyright strike the channel as well without even having to argue the body footage theft. One could argue it is transformative so the visual footage is no longer belonging to the original but hey, if its not a full 25 per cent change no judge in the US will go for that. But court cases will have to be filed and this will have to be worked out.
Yes, the laws do exist, in theory, but individuals do not have the financial resources to take corporations to court. So they don't. Until masses of class action suits result in masses of losses for corporations, the theft of copyright will continue. I'm not holding my breath.
There was a time when it was less likely that someone would corrupt a thing. Or, that few would. That time is gone. We are about to get much worse before we consider if we should do something about it. That's too bad.
Thank you for covering this Fil... As an amateur guitarist and software engineer, I have been VERY concerned about the emergence of AI and what seems like a complete lack of concern at the government level where its apparently more critical to make sure transgendered people don't have access to bathrooms.
This is worse than those "react" videos, where content "creators" play someone elses 15 minute video, add a few comments, and get the views/ ad revenue with close to zero effort.
@@webstercat It depends on the vid. Sometimes there is real commentary playing off the original. Like when "Metatron" from Palermo reacted to Xiaomanyc's attempt at that dialect in that city.
AI in art is a bane. The videos you chose look like they were appealing to someones fetish and slowly, the more people become acclimated to it the worse it's gonna get. Having been steeped in years of the industry I'm able to spot it but that's only because I've spent my entire life immersed in my passion. Hey Youngbloods, you better educate yourself or they're going to dumb you down so far that you'll be puppets to people with no scruples. Good art takes a lifetime to create. It seems that people are always trying to cash in on other artists work leaving the artist with less monetization or inroads to get a chance to make a living form their talent unless it's in the justice system. And even THAT'S harder than it's ever been. Don't get suckered! Thank you for giving me a platform to say this Fil.
I have always been afraid of the potential of AI since I first learned about it in college back in the early ‘80s. I was a computer science major and learned one of the first AI languages called LISP. As with any science, it starts innocently enough, but humans being human…
I do wildlife and event photography and we are seeing the same thing. People are faking photographs and using them for revenue instead of trudging through the outdoors in all sorts of weather taking photos and spendings days editing them. This is going to be a real problem for all artists moving forward. Copyright laws may have to be strengthened and certainly social media sites will have to be more diligent about weeding these out. In the meantime the rest of us will have to call these out when we see them.
As they get better and better how will we even know which ones are real? Students are using Grammarly and chat gpt to get A's on essays. Real competition and artistry is over :(
I am an amateur photographer, and a paying member of 500px. Some people upload AI-generated images to that site but it is actually not as common as I thought it would be. It might be because you can't make a lot of money by doing that whereas the compensation from RUclips is significant if your video gets millions of views.
The reality is that there is not going to be a world that existed like it did before technology. This is just the fruit of the tree that we planted. And unless we uproot and prohibit the planting of technological trees the progress isn't going to stop. Are you willing to give up all technology, including your Android, IPhone, laptops, high speed internet, just to keep all of this from happening? Imagine how buggy whip makers and buggy makers felt when Henry Ford came along. And what about cobblers and blacksmiths?
They've done the same with dancing. A French girl called Audrey de Sois competed in a swing dance competition in 2019 and now you've got AI dancers doing Audrey's exact same moves getting millions of views. I don't know if Audrey gave permission or got any royalties for it.
Key thing to note here. Just because people are viewing or liking a video doesn't mean they think its real. That's the wrong assumption to make. However, this kind of makes it more troubling in a way, because it highlights that people don't care if it's real or not, or they are beginning to give up on telling the difference.
I think it's obvious that we are at the tipping point of losing all trust in digital information. What this future might look like is fascinating. Will we see digital/internet free products and services? Digital free societies? Maybe the Amish will have the last laugh.
Content created by real people will become 'boutique', requiring authentication before it's sold. This means the rich will be able to afford the real thing. The rest of us? . . . .
The sick thing that I find most demoralizing as a female singer/songwriter, is that I don't even know how many people care, at the end of the day, if a "hot girl playing guitar" is real or not. They just want to see the fantasy of a hot girl. It's another level of objectifying women and I'm so tired of it. And, with real people putting filters on themselves and plastic surgery also being somewhat normalized and rampant on real channels to "enhance" etc. it feels as if the gap between an obvious AI person and a real person, who is using filters, is narrowing... which could make it even more hard to tell the difference. UGH. Thank you for being a bright light of authenticity in the madness!
"Tired of what, exactly? Look, pal, humans are hardwired from birth to behave in certain ways-it's called 'evolution,' in case you missed that in biology class. You’re never going to change this behavior in humans unless you turn them into an entirely different species. Of course, attractive women portrayed in any scenario are going to generate attention, and that attention can lead to significant income. It always has and always will because they are perceived by males as sexually desirable. What does human DNA want? To continue the species with the most biologically fit and healthy individuals. From a biological perspective, attractive women often embody those traits."
Hard not being objectified when artists have to turn themselves into products to be financially sustainable. Ai is bringing the concept of packaging in a whole new level.
I saw those first 3 vids several days ago. In the comments sections, many people believed they were real with only a minority at the time pointing out they were AI. This is the same for a number of AI animal vids doing the rounds, including a giant pet owl on the owner’s arm, and a giant octopus on the deck of a fishing vessel. It’s alarming how so many are easily fooled, particularly regarding the music vids
I think this fraudulent use of AI goes to show that if ignorance is bliss, then people are desperate to be happy with not knowing what’s really happening.
You have to remember there are a gazillion children online seeing these things and they're not sophisticated/mature or discerning enough to realize they're seeking AI fakery.
I miss the good old days of musical fraud, when the worst offense was Milli Vanilli receiving a Grammy for an album on which they were falsely credited as the singers.
Blame the PRODUCERS of Mill Vanilli. They were the "money" people behind all of that. Two poor kids from Germany simply did what they were told to do. Yet, when the thing broke, they let them take all the blame, when they were basically "employees". The "boss" was their producer et al. THEY financed the whole Milli Vanilli project, AND knew exactly what was going on
Abuse of technology to mislead consumers should be as illegal as any other type of abuse. After first being paid for singing 66 yrs ago, I cannot hold a steady note beyond a beat or two today. I also cannot swim a km, lift 50kg, climb Kilimanjaro, or run a marathon any more. We need to recognise we're human, before we're made obsolete.
My daughter and I were discussing this last night. Actually just doing some marketing stuff for my studio, and we were getting so angry with one programme which kept trying to "magic write" for me, when all I wanted was to put contact details. And now my phone is demanding I use Gemini AI...for what? All I want is to type a comment. My own comment , with my own brain (and thumbs) and the AI developers seem to think I can't be allowed to do that.
Yeah messenger now has a built-in feature to let AI rewrite what you wrote and change the tone. It's not far to those of us who work hard to be good writers! I've gone back to university and i wonder how I will ever compete with kids using chat GPT and AI. :(
I have noticed that autofill does not suggest completion or even recognize words it does not like. One of the big problems here will be changing speech itself with suggested proper speech as well as speech that is more difficult due to autocorrect and the like. Most people will take the path of least resistance changing not only how we speak but how we think.
Good job on this, Stallone! People have been using other's content for some time and often not giving credit. Nothing has been done about that yet. There's also been AI content being passed off as real. Often, people spot it, but I've seen AI content where I'm the only one that notices. People are cluelessly saying things like "that's beautiful, where is this?" or "That 90 year old lady shreds on the guitar!" Innocent enough, though, but if asked to disclose if it's AI, people should definitely disclose. But, some people are dishonest and won't. Superimposing like this, however, is a whole new level unless it's approved by the film owner or sold/licensed to the AI app for use. There are too many gullible people, so it's easy to pass off fake things as real. The ones that bother me are disinformation, especially ones to create fear or that has to do with medical/health info. People run with these things and propagate the fear/disinformation and it becomes conspiracy theories. All for the purpose of some views!!! "Hey, Alexa, tell me..." We've all seen those, right? Alexa doesn't say those things, but people run with it thinking it actually does know when World War 3 will start, etc. 🤦🏼♀️
I spent years writing and recording an all original track, paying an artist to make a stop-motion video, and I only got a few hundred views. Really discouraging. I don't like this world.
How were we to know? Pay to advertise at least to the value of your investment in the work. Usually it takes years to build an audience. Say you got 90% better statistics on the video, you'd get 1,000 on the next, then 10,000 and so on. Getting hundreds on a new thing is fantastic. Also, we weren't invested in the project, you didn't film the making off run up, release teasers, etc. Most people ust aren't able to watch thousands of new videos to pick out the gems. I don't even know which of your videos has stop motion in. Put it in the title at least, they're much higher effort and garner more attention. Frankly i'd be happy with what i'd produced for it's own sake.
The point is that most people don't care at all if it is "fake" or not, they do not know the people on the screen anyway (too many videos). It is just entertainment.
@@doghous3 Sure, but it is not new and everybody knows it. How many imagines are "photoshoped" ? And most music does not come from a "real" instrument anyway, eg from a real piano with hammers and cords. So it is more about public acceptance. And of course the respect of the work of the artists, so as long as they agree...
The artificial girls and women got progressively more objectified so that I was afraid to see what would be next after the 3rd one. I think we can see what the AI has been trained on besides music and that's the reason for all the views. It's creeping me out that this is how so many see, and/or want to see women. I'm so sorry for the girls growing up now being bombarded with these images instead of seeing real women with real talent and accomplishments.
I've been thinking about starting my own you tube channel that will specifically focus on what I go through from start to finish writing a song, recording not just the guitar but playing all the parts myself, singing all the vocals with no autotune or pitch correct mixing, and mastering. No AI. Mistakes included; to get rid of a mistake that I don't like, it's record the whole track again. Just like, you know, playing live. If I do it, it will be interesting to see if this approach confounds AI bandits. Because Imma tell ya _what,_ I do not have any AI nor am I gonna get any. Just like I thought it would be, AI is being used in the foulest, most scurvy dishonest way. Screw that.
Gary Vee (who recorded nearly 1000 vine videos before his success started) recommends to show the audience your whole path including the failings coz "the path is the goal" ... so go for it ... and humans will like it ... and A.I. wont copy before you re really successful ... send me a link, when you start!!!
Amen to what you just said-it would be better if people used their technical skills for the betterment of humanity. It’s really frightening how people are using AI to defraud others.
They do not have above average technical skills. As Fil demonstrated this software is available to all, but has great and legitimate film production utility and improve internet anonymity. The software itself is currently a 'you make it or others will' camp. It isn't a single great invention but a logical development from early machine learning. Eventually the ideal is you can generate a custom film just for you that never existed before suited to your own tastes, even starring you and your family if you wished.
I think the best way an artist can protect their work is by using a form of watermark. Watermarks have been used in maps for centuries, where a particular cartographer would put a make-believe town into their map and if that appeared on any other map they would know the other cartographer copied their work. If a musical artist could put something in their video that would prove that the video was theirs, someone doing a face swap might not know about the watermark or might not be able to remove it. Another tell of a fake video would be if the face is the only difference between two videos, the one that was uploaded first is likely the real one and something uploaded at a later date would be the fake. The artist can petition RUclips to review the two videos and analyze them to make their decision. But that's assuming the original artist even knows about the new fake video.
This could get so bad that the only thing we can trust is in-person interaction. it's hard to tell what is real even on this level when you're looking at such a small screen on a phone.
I agree. I think in person interaction is coming back, in fact my business is completely based on that. I also live stream every week, so It will be interesting to see if that increases in the next year or not.
As a musician myself, I've seen these sorts.of videos and it is really alarming. Where indeed is the policing of this new type of plagiarism? How can it be policed anyway? The same type of fraud has also occurred with A.I writing novels in the style of known writers, such that the real human author cannot tell the difference. That is terrifying. A.I could be used to help creativity I suppose but where are the boundaries? We are reaching the point where human creativity will be stifled completely and that is a terrible thing for humankind
This is why digital images were inadmissible in court but of course now they are if " properly authenticated " which is suspect. The only option in the future is to unplug, ditch your smart phone and get back to real life. Whether or not people are willing and able to do so will determine the relevance of AI in daily life. Save our libraries because we will most certainly need them.
I think all AI-generated images should have to have, by law, integrated invisible signatures of some kind. What if a legal case comes up in which a photo or video decides the case? There needs to be some form of being able to determine, if only for legal and not just ethical reasons.
Companies selling AI write in the agreement that they are not responsible for its use. It is a tool, the person who uses it is responsible for its use. But there are many countries in the world, there will be no identical laws.
Legit store web sites use security certificates to prove to web browsers that you’re visiting the true vendor and not some scam site. Perhaps these certificates could be used to apply a digital signature to creative works like videos or music. Artists would digitally sign their videos, and anyone could verify that a given video truly came from the real artist. Maybe Fil could ask a nerd friend if this idea makes sense. But if banks and stores online trust this tech it seems a good solution for musicians. Until quantum computing breaks everything that is.
Easy to notice➡️ Easy to notice if you are looking out for it➡️ noticable if you pay attention (we are here)➡️ hard to tell but still has clues if you assess it forensically➡️ just about impossible to spot (we will arrive here shortly)
I hate AI as much as the next guy. But I think another more subtle factor at play here is that we've been accustomed to "If it's a computer, you sign away all legal rights". It's been that way since the 90s. "By clicking 'I agree' , I give up my right to sue". Maybe it's time to reverse that? If you do the same thing (impersonate another human or represent yourself as another business) in the real world, you will get sued in your local jurisdiction. But we're all just resigned to the fact that it's just not possible with a tech company. Well, that can be changed: state and local governments could step in and allow regular citizens to file small claims or "petty" ($10k-100k) lawsuits against youtube, ticktock, and any other major site. If the site doesn't consent to letting you have a right to sue, then the state revokes the right of the tech company to do business in their state. That doesn't have to be limited to censorship (I know the internet is notoriously difficult to block), but the states could (individually) make it illegal to buy advertising from Google, or pay for any google products, as a resident of their state.
😆😆😆 I've been singing out of tune and out of time to prove I'm not cheating! I think with this new face change, it will help if I try to look as ugly as poss...
The other issue, which is already happening in photography/art is somebody makes a legitimately awesome piece of work the old fashioned way and it is dismissed as likely AI created. Music will be like that / oh that’s so good it’s probably just AI…
These videos are 0% about music, and 100% about perverts. The people that are watching these videos couldn't care less whether it's real or not. This concept of having a pretty guitarist look up and stare at you, really began with a truly brilliant guitarist named Gabriella Quevado, and then the imposters set to work taking it to a truly sick level.
My dad has a record from the 70's and he has a cucumber shoved down his tight pants to show off his package to women. It's always been 'about perverts' to some degree, but you are missing two other things. One, why are you assuming the views are comments are real? They're faked too. The other is chinese nationalists fetishizing chinese supremacy. It's a rabid market. Besides, if women didn't fetishize guitarists i probably wouldn't have learned to play.
In essence this is theft. In the UK if someone steals your car up grades it with wheels tyres go faster pack and a respray If, Mr plod come across it then it goes back to the original owner with all the goodies on it In this case all the ad revenue should go back to the original uploader
Right, it's obvious. If I kidnap someone, and while they're unconscious I hire an unscrupulous plastic surgeon to sculpt a new face on them... they don't become my property. "This obviously isn't the same woman in the license photo. Totally different face. Plus, THAT woman had fingerprints..." It doesn't work that way. If you commit a 2nd crime, in order to try to cover up the first crime, that doesn't absolve you, even if you did a great job that would fool most people. I'm usually very progressive about sampling... unless it's lazy sampling, which is what these examples are. Sample a whole track, have an app alter the most identifying aspect, and then reupload it as your own creation... that's not legit.
This isn't the case, actually. They do still have ownership over the extra parts and do have a claim there. Stealing more back off them isn't how our system currently works.
@@GizzyDillespeetheir new face is the intellectual property of the surgeon. If you stole canvas and had an artist make a masterpiece, it's still the artist's work and not the canvas owner's. Anyone can rotoscope a work of film and it is transformative. Rarely done as it is tedious. When AI is used that's still transformative. You're in the copyrighting dance moves department. While some of this is illegal, if they were to use say two works to train the AI on, it would be completely distinct from both. The fact is AI learning is modelled on human learning, so you'd have to ban humans from learning from these public works too somehow. It'd be nice to prevent AI replacing the majority of human art. But it is unrealistic. On the plus side, AI can make custom music and art for those that could never afford it before. Best to embrace the benefits.
As a musician myself who writes, records, mixes, masters my ‘own’ music and then creates music videos for my songs, AI is extremely disturbing. In fact, the whole digital distribution on my content has made me stop and re-think how I am distributing my work to the world. As long as content creators give up their creations to music and video distribution to huge corporations via the likes of Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Google…etc all for the fame game, real music, and soon to follow real film, will be a thing of the past. There should be so many lawsuits out there because of AI and the fraud of people using it to literally steal other peoples work and call it their own. I can’t wait til people would rather go and see an AI band play live than real musicians! The whole thing has gotten out of hand in a very very short time.
Thanks for posting this video. Music is supposed to come from the heart and soul. This BS is just nauseating. I think you have to hit them in the pocket book because that's all they really care about. We may need to find a new way to share our original creations with others. Good luck everyone. Keep it real 🤞
In the old-fashioned expression "brave new world," the word "brave" meant wild and unruly, not courageous. So yes, you're spot on using the expression.
Yeah this phrase is very appropriate, i love saying it all the time. In the original Shakespeare its kind of an ironic joke, 'brave' is meant to be unironically positive when said by the ignorant speaker, but we the audience know she is being super naive. "How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't."
Thank you for pointing out another facet of this AI travesty. I've also been trying to keep up with what is happening with AI in the music industry and it is overly apparent that it is simply too fast to contend with as a mere musician. Some people are churning out album after album and releasing them onto the market with copyright claims that shouldn't even exist. But there are still no laws in place to deal with it. Not only that, but there are no mechanisms in place to even claim that it is AI generated when uploading to industry databases and aggregators. You are right in what you say. How is this going to be policed? Especially now that it is approaching the point where it is becoming indistinguishable from the real thing.
Fil, your work exposing the misuse of AI in the music industry is truly groundbreaking. It's crucial for us to stay informed about these issues. Keep up the fantastic work! - written by CoPilotAI
There are some people who like AI-generated people as long as their good-looking. When something new comes out, it gets a lot of attention through sheer novelty. For me, I'm watching these clips mesmerized by the strange artificiality of it, but once the novelty wears off I'm sure I'd get bored of watching these "products". Professionally I do architecture and interior design, but one of my side hobbies is oil and acrylic on canvas. For about the past ten years I've been seriously considering using my drawing tablet to create art in Photoshop and similar programs. Then about a year ago I opted instead to learn watercolour, and I'm glad I did. AI and digital art in general has been cheapened, whereas I've noticed that people hold my watercolours on 300lb watercolour paper as if they're priceless antiques. The Japanese have a term in art and craftsmanship called wabi-sabe, "perfection in imperfection", and only humans can do it. If an AI tried to do it it would be a vulgar display of tastelessness trying to mimic it. Why are things more expensive than others? A large part of it has to do with rarity. AI art is a dime a dozen now, whereas art produced by a skilled human hand is rare. This applies to videos and music, too. There's a growing backlash against CGI, and a growing backlash against Protools. AI can't match creations of human origin, because it has no human taste, no originality, and no agency or emotions; it doesn't understand what it's creating, it's just synthesizing others' superior work. Sorry about the rant, but this is something I have been following very closely to see how it affects what I do for work and pleasure.
Fil, I knew you had to make a video on this, being a female guitarist myself this made my blood boiled. Why only use only female guitarists, just to get more views? Ironically the guitarists they use are actually beautiful women, so why whoever is making these videos will they feel the need to superimpose a AI model to an already attractive-looking face? This is just setting an unrealistic standard on beauty. There needs to be some law to protect artists from AI stealing their material and profiting of it. There’s so much productive things we can do with AI in music or in anything else, this is just humans abusing technology once again!
I just looove that I was young in the 90's. No cameras, no internet, no social media, lots of optimism, simple living. Such a great sweet spot between hard times in the 80's and the madness nowadays. Another thought - I hope that live shows played by real musicians will be more appreciated and honoured. Most people can't even imagine the amount of work and time it takes to master an instrument.
Many years ago I had the thought that as tv pictures are just made up of pixels, ultimately you could display anything at all if you could control those pixels - looks like we finally got here, wherever here is.
It is aggravating that these problems were always predictable and restrictions and ways to enforce copyright and privacy laws should have been developed immediately. Until then, the real world is right outside our doors. We should go see bands and plays live, attend in-person classes, and shop in stores as much as possible.
People,....go watch live music played by live musicians on stage please. Shut down the computer and support live performances that don't use autotune or AI. There's no substitute for watching a live performance by original artists in the moment. That's the only place left to find intrinsic performances that exemplify the human experience. Everything else is just untrustworthy these days. As a live performer, I live in the moment for that moment when on stage where magic happens every night but you have to be there to see and hear it because that should be what you want to see, not this AI fake waste of time. RBB 🎹
Remember how artists first went ballistic with AI generated art like Dall-E etc? We’re already way past this stage and even further. There’s no stopping unless social media sites bother to take massive actions to verify all videos with very extensive checks. This already has been prevalent for the past year with faceswap technologies.
I have reported loads of channels that are mimicking real artists channels, then uploading fake AI music videos with official on the thumbnails, so far RUclips have done nothing.
🎶🎵 If I were a dead man, yadadidldidldeedldeedledah.🎵 All day long I'd be singing on the sand, Backed up by a band, Strumming with 3 hands, If I only I were no longer in this land.🎶🎵🎶
One problem I can foresee with AI is in the field of law and justice. Picture this. A man is being tried for a bank robbery in which a bystander is shot dead. Someone who has a grudge against the defendant, creates a video, using AI, where the defendant's likeness is inserted, and is shown robbing the bank and shooting the bystander. They present it as having come from a surveillance camera. AI has gotten so advanced that it is extremely difficult to determine whether or not the video is authentic! This defendant could plausibly be convicted of a crime he has no knowledge about or connection with! This is just one example where AI is maliciously used against someone, I'm sure there are many others, limited only by one's imagination and creativity.
Oh, jeez......you're onto something here. It won't happen soon, but I'm sure there are those working on it. Those people in prison have computers and plenty of time on their hands, after all.
When you see some of the artists impressions of a criminal on some of the old crime stopper shows and realise a conviction was made I'm going out on a limb here and saying the basic cartoon AI app would be ample for framing someone.
Video and pictures are already not a judicial proof in front of any court in the USA...don't know in the UK... Soon will be harder and harder for witnesses to prove their said as any document pr source can be so easily falsified....politicians we love this and spread thousand of fake news manipulating people in their favor...futur is already doomed
Two things I noticed in the "Beat It" video around 8:00. 1.The "Les Paul" looks one-dimensional, like its likeness has been visually dubbed in. Then look at the "Marshall amplifier head" in the background...there's no cord plugged in to it. Keep pointing all this stuff out, Fil. I always admired your videos and talent and I admire you even more for pointing all this stuff out. There just seems to be no shame. Sad.
there are little glitchy things around hair and eyes...the trick to catch the music thieves, would be to stick some trademark sound or notes that sort of identify you as playing it. I don't know how one would do that exactly. Kind of a 'sound watermark'.
AI could easily search out and delete a watermark! The latest Google Pixel can use AI to add the photographer into a picture they are taking. There's nothing it can't add or remove.
“You cannot believe anything you see on the Internet”
Abraham Lincoln
Abe was well ahead of his time
Or as John Fogerty said “I know it’s true ‘cause I seen it on TV”.
And we have a president elect who said we had airports in the 1700s (among a million other lies). Doesn't help when those at the top are so stupid and deceptive.
@@albertschepis stupidity is not exclusive to the top, you can find it anywhere even in this comment section
I guess he missed the review that said, "The play sucks. Don't bother."
There was a recent news story where a punk band called the Dead Boys wanted their current singer to sing with the cadence of their previous, deceased singer. They were then going to wrap the old singer's voice around it with AI and call it a "tribute album." The current singer said "no" and quit the band! Good for him!
Ironic in many ways
This has been done to me. I run invite-only livestream painting tutorials (on another platform). Someone, a member who I wasn't (yet?) able to identify, started putting my tutorials with another face and a different room in the background on their YT channel and further used computer-generated views and likes. Since I don't do tutorials on YT I now start all my streams with a canvas that has the words "If you are seeing this on any platform other than [redacted because YT will no doubt take it down if I name it here] it is FAKE". I doubt their AI can airbrush that out and still show my fake-face doppelganger doing the actual painting. At least that's my hope. If they find a way round it I will have to interject in the streams every few minutes to say something like "By the way there are no ads in my shows and no editing, it's all live including the chat, so if you see an ad or the picture suddenly jumps, you're looking at a bootleg video, probably with someone else's face on it", but I really don't want to have to do that because my students pay a membership fee to watch and listen to me painting, they don't pay to listen to me complaining about fraud.
Fil -- Your work with exposing abuse in autotuning, prerecorded tracking and lip-synching in purportedly live performances, and most recently, the outright fraud being perpetrated using artificial intelligence, is ground-breaking and incredibly important. You are the Woodward and Bernstein of the music industry. Keep up the great work. P.S. This comment was not generated using artificial intelligence, just the usual kind.
Fil is indeed the Woodward and Bernstein of the music industry! Thank you for pointing that out so eloquently!
Ultimately I agree with you yet provide a caveat. Context matters. That is Tech is Tech,how use use it is another!! Specifically using tech to decieve people that they are receiving a 'Live Perfomance' which they paid for yet aren't,that's the issue.
When it comes down to it I don't think most give a damn how Music,Movies or Art is Generated,we like what we like. Here is really my point.
Many like me have grown up watching Star Trek & watched with Jaws agape with every Holo-Deck Scene!! The idea that you can just say...
*"Computer,Generate a Live Sympony Concert of a Fictitious Orchestra playing their Original Works."*
...is Awesome!! Just like that a whole Concert Hall with Stage,Instrumentalists & all appears right in front of you!!!!😵🤯
Point is, *All the Field Workers of old viewed Tractors & Industrialized Farming equipment Negatively! Now as Industrialisation gives Way to Automation,it too faces the same scrutiny by those who only choose to focus on the Negatives!*
Being able to create by Direct Speech & Thought input is extremely Powerful & Benefitial. *Sadly it will prove to be quite Destructive to those operating on 'Currency' Based Resource Management Systems!*
Currency is a hindrance to True Freedom,which Automation could Provide. *What we 'Self Proclaimed' 1st World Nation's suffer from is a Value Placement Dissorder caused by a Lack of Technolgical Awareness & General Missinformation!!*
Totally agree
What a great comment!
Careful how you treat AI, one day they will hold your life in their hand.
I'll stick with live bands at the local pub...
Well said. And the open mikes at your local bar.
I'm with you...
Only a matter of time before you show up to to see live music and the band will be holograms.
It's all just a matter of time before someone figures a way to fake that, too. Get back to me in five years.
This kind of fakery might just be the catalyst that re-sparks the local live scene again.
We need a new "RUclips" site without AI.
I thought of that for Art gallery sites too. So many of them have been flooded with AI
PeerTube
Good idea!
We need public domain digital regulation. The potential harm to the world is too great. The problem is, it may be too late.
Impossible, I'm afraid
We've reached a point where fake AI musicians are going to be making more money than talented, legitimate, musically gifted individuals. Maybe even more money than a lot of established artists.
Not “are going to” in your scenario. It’s already happening. 😢
Yes, but the fake musicians will be created by bots, so the bots will be making the money. Except the money will be cyber coin and if the coin crashes the bots will go bankrupt...unless they go to Russia where the Russian bots are actually created by Chinese bots. The rest of us...will be unemployed. 😭
And, as always, it's people who are the problem. Don't listen to it, don't follow it, don't give it likes, views and subscriptions.
Music and sexuality are being grievously exploited, and it is wrong.
@@ernies8828 the porn industry will soon be a huge chaos, people will create fake videos with the face, voice and even ambients of their choice. Nobody will be safe from malicious/revenge porn AI creations
We can start simply by petitioning RUclips to add "Undisclosed AI" to the report list. Channels that use AI for views without disclosing it or which use a substantial amount of another's work without permission should be shut down and sued.
When RUclips introduces AI Block I'll disable Ad Block.
RUclips are totally censored. Comments on certain subjects are deleted and users are banned and shadow banned already. Prtitioning YT does nothing. They don't care.
RUclips is drowning in completely AI edited videos made by automated video generation tools that just spews out spam videos... It take 3 seconds top make a video with those tools complete with video clips, still pictures, subtitles and AI voice narrating. Most people do not understand that these horrible bad videos is created automatically and watch them ...
Yes!
When YT take down comments regarding petitioning them (like I have been on this thread) then there is no point at all. They don't care.
Remember the public outcry about Milli Vanilli in the 90s? The public changed.
Years ago, soon after Forrest Gump was released, there was a program on the Discovery Channel showing how they created the 'handshake' scenes that made it appear Forrest was really shaking hands with JFK or LBJ. My husband and I, both baby boomers and he a Viet Nam Vet, looked at each other and said: "There it is. This is the last time you can ever believe anything you see or hear unless you are truly in person."
And think about how long ago that was! Decades ago. We're entering uncharted waters.
but in a few period of time not even if you ARE in person, you won.t be able to tell any more. a.i is given permission now to create better a.i. and it advances at a pace that our limited brains won.t understand. it.s the first time i truely believe that the end is near
remember the TANG memos Dan Rather swore he had about George Bush's service?
he got greedy. a more competent forger might have won that election for Kerry.
Now... do 2020.
There's a clothing designer, Cassey Ho, who not long ago made a video showing how someone has stolen her ads & placed an AI face on her body to sell their knock-off clothes of her designs. So they've stolen her designs, her ads, and her body! Outrageous & horrifying 😡
I have seen this even without AI.
The Chinese have been doing this for over a decade, and sellers on Amazon have been complaining that their products are being jacked for cheap lower priced products. My thing is if we make American products 'made in China" how do we not expect them to eventually develop their own economic integrity?
Thats fucked up
It’s imo 3:05 @mimisounds and 4:55 Larissa Liveir. Maybe give them a shoutout ✌🏼
@@augustsnowfall5189 ,
I left a comment for Larissa. Please leave one for Mimi. I couldn’t find her Police cover.
It's not just musicians, it's actors etc.. Even voiceover artists can have their voices sampled for purposes they'd not consent to, and revenues they'll never get.
Won't be long before the internet is completely unusable.
actually soon you will be able to make all the content you want to consume by yourself on your own computer, you will tell AI what you want to watch or view and it will create it perfectly tailored for you, kind of like the holodeck on Star Trek
It morphed into Bot Tube years ago. Social Engineering execs do not want "YOU" Tube in nwo.
"Won't be long"?
Yep,it's starting to bug, everything fake.
You may be right but I sure hope you are wrong. I like RUclips.
Absolutely insane where we are heading!
Hope you're doing marvellously well.
Love your stuff, Warren. It is very worrying.
We are already there. :(
Fil is already on it
Frightening where we are heading.
Yo Warren, I m already looking forward reviewing all your videos with a beautyful asian busty on your body. 🥳 (just kidding)
Good eye 👍. As a bass player of 30 years, I had no idea this was going on. I will now start paying attention using the items you pointed out. The first AI with blonde hair, her eyelids don't move.
The effect of all this fraud is creative people will not bother to put their creations out there because they will just be stolen.
You're right on, and the AI will eat itself - a copy of a copy of a copy....
Yeah thats already happening for artists.
I thought same thing, do u put music on Spotify? No sense,
Being a musician my whole life and all the hard work I put into it over the years and the sacrifices have made I'm afraid to put any music out any more to just get stolen
I do not at all as in 19, I had a meeting with a guy who needed a singer for his tune which he actually bought off CL for $100.00. I saw where this was as going and just thought of the song title by The Who: "All this Music...(can't finish the title..too sad.) I told him I was not happy singing to a song someone bought off Craigslist in order to call it his own.
I’ve been considering recording my own music and getting it out. But I’ve heard some scary stories about the people behind AI stealing music from other musicians who have put in their own hard work.
Don't be. You can only do what you can do. This is certainly shameful, but it's what's happening. All you can do is keep plugging along and hope people like it. I'm facing the same thing in a related field. I retired not long ago, so I won't be robbed as much as I would be now, but I still will continue to create hope for the best. It's all I CAN do. It's all YOU can do. It's all the more shameful if your art is your living, and it sounds like yours is. Mine was and I guess I'm lucky to be out of it. I still love it, but I no longer DEPEND on it. Best wishes!
@@glamgal7106 It is very important of you do so to actually copyright your material with the copyright office. DO NOT poor man copyright your music. That will not be enough. You do not say whether you are in the U.S. or England or not, but when you register a song with the copyright office in the States, lyrics are registered with a form separate from the music itself which requires a separate form..and a separate cheque! Ppl stealing other artist's material has gone on for decades; AI has just merely made the practice easier to be anonymous; other than that, it is the same old song and dance as it were!
Pretty much.
But these sorts of AI being used.. it's very deceptive.
As a long time musician this is sickening . I can tell the fake videos pretty easily . I cant believe all the rave reviews ..wow babe youre one of the best . Most are just simps that dodnt even know theyre being duped . Damn shame !!
you won.t be able to tell in a few years. not even you. people created a.i. that creates more perfect a.i.... the" second coming" is near and ppl will fall for it. we are screwed and we did it to ourselves
I have heard that 'likes,' can be bought and faked, I don't pay any attention to them anymore.
Maybe a huge chunk of the likes and reviews on these ai videos are ALSO created by ai/bots meant to make the video look more popular and credible than it actually is.
Bots making videos for bots to review...
@ClanknClaws that was a scam that i just read about. someone made millions doing exactly this, starting back in 2018. crazy
Fakery should be called out every time. If we allow it to continue, we will never have reality in music again. How very sad! Thanks to you, Fil, we are at least being informed about all of these shenanigans! 😕🎸🎵
Many of us already knew about this before AI was even a thing.
ALLOW it to continue? I don't think we have a chance of turning things around. It would have to be addressed case by case and by the time one gets taken care of, a thousand more will have popped up. And that's after the money had already been spent. Too little and definitely too late. It's sad, really.
Fake or not, are people still impressed with some vanilla "guitar player" playing another cover of 'Beat It' ?! Never mind the fact that most of these "guitarists" heavily rely on VSTs, Modelers & pro-tools in order to play in the first place. Seriously, for over a decade now, music has only been one step removed from AI. Most modern acts exploit music production software (triggers, time editing, pitch correction, auto-tune, samples) just to produce sterilized, dynamic-less trite that regurgitates ideas, tones,etc... Just my .02
@@ernies8828 I'm just a little curious as to how "some of you" knew AI was a thing before it was even a thing? That literally makes no sense.
This is a classic bubble waiting to burst. The ad revenue will dry up when the platforms become completely inundated with dumb AI stuff. There will be something that comes next, but it won't be hot asian AI girls singing your song.
I just reported the channel who produced the videos you showed, Fil. Thanks a lot for uncovering these frauds and make these things public!
Well done. Now I believe it’s 3:05 @mimisounds and 4:55 Larissa Liveir who have been AI manipulated. (allegedly imo) Maybe if you want to, go let the girls know or just give their YT a view.✌🏼
Good on ya!
And is what people should do every time they saw fake AI...
Dont wait ! Dont let them get views and naking money of that
If everyone will do that they will not upload anymore ...well until AI will get too good at it that we will not be able to spot AI video from real one...as they gonna fix the fret and hair issue pretty soon😢
please don't move in next door to me
@@neoczy3249 the video platform, like RUclips, wouldn't give a toss...RUclips get billions from advertisers that want to sell their product, a small percentage of that goes to video creators, the platforms aren't going to cut off the hand that feeds them, so viral videos will continue to exist....and AI videos will continue to grow.
Recently my parents passed away and i had to sell the house and contents, most of the furniture was sold for pennies, we had a Yamaha piano that has always been serviced very well looked after, after trying to sell it with no interest whatsoever, someone made an offer and it went, i've been on marketplace to sell small items and browse, the number of musical instruments for sale boggled the mind, i was also amazed at the number of pianos, not only selling cheap but given away for free, it's sad but the music i grew up is not now anymore, music is dead. 😥😥😥😥
I've seen so many free pianos on Craigslist it's ridiculous; some are antiques; some are player pianos. I've even seen a few grand pianos for free. It's almost to the point where it's foolish to go out and actually buy one.
industries have been creatively bankrupt for years. AI will take over and normies shan't care - I've spoken to a few people that already share that sentiment. To be an enthusiast for real-people created art will make you an elitist/snob in the near future.
@@doghous3 How long before you become obsolete doghous3?
@@doghous3 Well then, Elitist/Snob I shall be!
A huge part of the free piano thing is due to people looking to harvest the value of the real estate as immediately as possible. Same thing with all the other households... only, another big part of that is because there is an utter glut of second hand stuff... people are constantly emptying their houses out and moving out of state, at least here in California which has become nearly unlivable due to real estate prices.
I have found so much good stuff, set out at the curb because people don't want to try to sell it. Imagine all the perfectly good stuff that just goes to the dump😢 now if only I had space for a free piano...
So the old adage "Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see." has now become believe NOTHING.
You have to have strong first principles.
Except guys like Fil. Totally believable.
you mean anything I suppose
@@albertschepis lol....
Well, the adage really goes, Don't believe everything that you hear...
Now it should add, Look closely at what you see.
I grew up reading Orwell and Asimov… it’s nuts to see that it’s so Orwellian these days and we are hurtling towards needing the law of robotics.
Too late, Robot Elon has taken over 😂
Don't forget Philip K.
Unfortunately, Asimov's laws of robotics won't be used in this new world 😢🇦🇺
@@localbod Except that the eyes won't give it away anymore. I'm even starting to suspect that the whole number of fingers thing was something intentional...See, you are still better, you can spot the difference...
It's "hurtling" but yeah, scary for sure. (Hurling is throwing, or in slang "throwing up"; hurtling is moving like you meant, like a runaway car.)
Thank you so much for exposing this travesty, i am obviously aware of AI but not the implications of fraud and plagiarism. This is nothing less than horrific, we will arrive at a stage where everything is questioned and falsehood will be supreme, genuine and fake will melt in to one. Bless you for this invaluable insight.
Thank God for the 50, 60, 70' 80, 90s. 😢
Exactly my thoughts but even that isn't safe from AI anymore
I'm properly grateful for having been about for some of those decades and extremely grateful for the creative signposts that made me aware of what came before - something that appears to be ever more in danger these days.
The 00's weren't terrible, but the last decade or so, with some exceptions, has been a downward spiral.
I'm glad I've still got my hard copies (vinyl, cassette, CD) of what once was and hopefully that will help my daughter discern musical reality from the fakery that is AI.
The most worrying thing for me is that the AI will sterilise a fundamental joy of creativity and that joy is being able to create from and through your own self and on your own merits.
Thank God for Fil. I read an article in the news from a producer talked about Eddie Van Halen, and he said in the 90s there was no creative guitarists. Hence the lack of solos in the 90s. I'm just quoting.
@@pashon4percushon ,
In what context did he say that? A lot of guitarists were inspired by EVH, and, to some extent, copied his style. There were other innovative guitarists at that time (maybe more in the eighties, but still plenty in the nineties).
There are a few that buck the trend: I read that Jack White stated that White Stripes Elephant (2003) was made without use of any computers.
I’m so glad that I was a teenager in the second half of the 1960s, & was living in England where there were amazingly-gifted musicians throughout the 60s,70s,80s & 90s ….. real musicians playing real musical instruments, with real voices. I lived through some of the best music ever, & nowadays, in my early seventies, I only listen to the music I grew up with through those decades. I’m also a big fan of Elvis, & there are lots of videos of him singing from 1956 up until his death in 1977, & thanks to you, I know it would be almost impossible to auto tune Elvis. Fil, thanks for bringing this to the attention of those of us who know very little about what can be done with AI. You have just educated me. You are doing a great job.
those musicians you mention still stand in the shadows of the greats that preceded then: Schostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Ravel, Mahler, Holst, Smetana, Beethoven, Bach
still lots of very very good musicians about! bloody everywhere
@@everyonesalama4447 musicians create melodies, harmonies, progressions, so they are not performers of others' music which is simply channeling other musicians, and they are not lyricists writing down poetry with the intent to sing it. So many people confuse& conflate what a musician is. Jacob Collier is a modern musician born 1994, and there is virtually nobody born in his generation at that level. Taylor Swift is a singing lyricist, not a musician, even though she could probably pass some basic music theory tests, like millions of people can. I'm not denying there were notable musicians from the 50s-90s, Queen, Dylan, Jackson. Hans Zimmer is a musician even though he sits at a computer and composes film music. I would still argue that a singer is not a musician unless they are creating the melodies and harmonies written in musical notation according to music theory. Singing what you created is a different skill. Mozart was not a singer even though he wrote lots of songs, but we don't remember those singers today, just the musician.
3:25 "so if you're looking at the guitar"... Fil, no-one is looking at the guitar 😂
"looks like a bit of a cartoon" lol. Great comment, Fil! Thanks for pointing out all of this trickery. Much appreciated.
Sadly the cartoonish nature can easily be interpreted as part of the artistry. Makes it suck even more.
Also, anime-like beauty is becoming the beauty trend right now I think.
The really sad part is the people who know nothing about music whatsoever would argue forever that you're just jealous and you don't know what you're talking when you point out to them that they're being scammed. Sadly enough RUclips is complicit in this because of the money in ad revenue.
Musicians let others use ai instead of using it themselves…
'RUclips is complicit in this because of the money in ad revenue'. Yes. :(
@@webstercat why would musicians use AI?
The law does exist. Face Swapping without consent is actually illegal for the person who owns the face or the body. Theft of the music itself (the soundtrack) is enough to copyright strike the channel as well without even having to argue the body footage theft. One could argue it is transformative so the visual footage is no longer belonging to the original but hey, if its not a full 25 per cent change no judge in the US will go for that. But court cases will have to be filed and this will have to be worked out.
Yes, the laws do exist, in theory, but individuals do not have the financial resources to take corporations to court. So they don't. Until masses of class action suits result in masses of losses for corporations, the theft of copyright will continue. I'm not holding my breath.
against the law and Cost a million to sue and then to PROVE it... years go by tecjh will also.... go by.
@@thegadphly3275 Yup. :(
If something can be corrupted, it will be corrupted.
AI had not non corrupt use. It was corrupt from its inception. Can you name a use for it that isn't replacing human thought and creativity?
People have been replaced by 'automata' since the Industrial Revolution. The future does not look bright.
And it's always in THE NAME OF MONEY $$$
There was a time when it was less likely that someone would corrupt a thing. Or, that few would.
That time is gone. We are about to get much worse before we consider if we should do something about it.
That's too bad.
Corrupted. Starting from the first human Adam and his wife.
Fil, so glad your Stallone face was only temporary 😂
Yep that was scary
It frightened me, and I was expecting it.
Stallone wishes the same thing.
Thank you for covering this Fil... As an amateur guitarist and software engineer, I have been VERY concerned about the emergence of AI and what seems like a complete lack of concern at the government level where its apparently more critical to make sure transgendered people don't have access to bathrooms.
It's so weird how AI can produce things down to a specific curl in a woman's hair and then you look lower and her ankle looks like a swipe of paint.
This is worse than those "react" videos, where content "creators" play someone elses 15 minute video, add a few comments, and get the views/ ad revenue with close to zero effort.
yup. about as boring as watching someone play video games.
POINTLESS!
This is big business. I’m sure lots of people behind it.
People happen to like reaction videos. I don’t but I don’t care about others
@@webstercat It depends on the vid. Sometimes there is real commentary playing off the original. Like when "Metatron" from Palermo reacted to Xiaomanyc's attempt at that dialect in that city.
AI in art is a bane. The videos you chose look like they were appealing to someones fetish and slowly, the more people become acclimated to it the worse it's gonna get. Having been steeped in years of the industry I'm able to spot it but that's only because I've spent my entire life immersed in my passion. Hey Youngbloods, you better educate yourself or they're going to dumb you down so far that you'll be puppets to people with no scruples. Good art takes a lifetime to create. It seems that people are always trying to cash in on other artists work leaving the artist with less monetization or inroads to get a chance to make a living form their talent unless it's in the justice system. And even THAT'S harder than it's ever been. Don't get suckered!
Thank you for giving me a platform to say this Fil.
I have always been afraid of the potential of AI since I first learned about it in college back in the early ‘80s. I was a computer science major and learned one of the first AI languages called LISP. As with any science, it starts innocently enough, but humans being human…
LISP - Lots of Infuriating, Stupid Parentheses...
I do wildlife and event photography and we are seeing the same thing. People are faking photographs and using them for revenue instead of trudging through the outdoors in all sorts of weather taking photos and spendings days editing them. This is going to be a real problem for all artists moving forward. Copyright laws may have to be strengthened and certainly social media sites will have to be more diligent about weeding these out. In the meantime the rest of us will have to call these out when we see them.
As they get better and better how will we even know which ones are real? Students are using Grammarly and chat gpt to get A's on essays. Real competition and artistry is over :(
I am an amateur photographer, and a paying member of 500px. Some people upload AI-generated images to that site but it is actually not as common as I thought it would be. It might be because you can't make a lot of money by doing that whereas the compensation from RUclips is significant if your video gets millions of views.
The reality is that there is not going to be a world that existed like it did before technology. This is just the fruit of the tree that we planted. And unless we uproot and prohibit the planting of technological trees the progress isn't going to stop. Are you willing to give up all technology, including your Android, IPhone, laptops, high speed internet, just to keep all of this from happening?
Imagine how buggy whip makers and buggy makers felt when Henry Ford came along. And what about cobblers and blacksmiths?
Somehow there has to be a way to Authenticate the Arts .
“We’re living in a plastic land, somebody give me a hand.” Thanks for the great expose, Fil!
They've done the same with dancing. A French girl called Audrey de Sois competed in a swing dance competition in 2019 and now you've got AI dancers doing Audrey's exact same moves getting millions of views. I don't know if Audrey gave permission or got any royalties for it.
lol she will not get royalty because what yu said doesn'y exist
This whole business is showing Barnum quote that "A sucker is born every minute" to need upgrading to "A hundred suckers are born every millisecond".
Key thing to note here. Just because people are viewing or liking a video doesn't mean they think its real. That's the wrong assumption to make. However, this kind of makes it more troubling in a way, because it highlights that people don't care if it's real or not, or they are beginning to give up on telling the difference.
I think it's obvious that we are at the tipping point of losing all trust in digital information. What this future might look like is fascinating. Will we see digital/internet free products and services? Digital free societies? Maybe the Amish will have the last laugh.
You shouldn't trust information (not just digital) unless you have at least two independent sources. That's been the case for decades.
You'll end up breathing digital air. Wait . . .
Content created by real people will become 'boutique', requiring authentication before it's sold. This means the rich will be able to afford the real thing. The rest of us? . . . .
Out of all the comments on this video, yours is the wisest and most logical conclusion. Thank you
The sick thing that I find most demoralizing as a female singer/songwriter, is that I don't even know how many people care, at the end of the day, if a "hot girl playing guitar" is real or not. They just want to see the fantasy of a hot girl. It's another level of objectifying women and I'm so tired of it. And, with real people putting filters on themselves and plastic surgery also being somewhat normalized and rampant on real channels to "enhance" etc. it feels as if the gap between an obvious AI person and a real person, who is using filters, is narrowing... which could make it even more hard to tell the difference. UGH. Thank you for being a bright light of authenticity in the madness!
"Tired of what, exactly? Look, pal, humans are hardwired from birth to behave in certain ways-it's called 'evolution,' in case you missed that in biology class. You’re never going to change this behavior in humans unless you turn them into an entirely different species. Of course, attractive women portrayed in any scenario are going to generate attention, and that attention can lead to significant income. It always has and always will because they are perceived by males as sexually desirable. What does human DNA want? To continue the species with the most biologically fit and healthy individuals. From a biological perspective, attractive women often embody those traits."
I read half your comment and agreed with some of it.
Completely agree.
Hard not being objectified when artists have to turn themselves into products to be financially sustainable. Ai is bringing the concept of packaging in a whole new level.
I don't think these are AI, they are mostly filters on actual video and spliced in Adobe premier and touched up by AI.
I saw those first 3 vids several days ago. In the comments sections, many people believed they were real with only a minority at the time pointing out they were AI. This is the same for a number of AI animal vids doing the rounds, including a giant pet owl on the owner’s arm, and a giant octopus on the deck of a fishing vessel. It’s alarming how so many are easily fooled, particularly regarding the music vids
I think this fraudulent use of AI goes to show that if ignorance is bliss, then people are desperate to be happy with not knowing what’s really happening.
There’s a sucker born every minute.
You have to remember there are a gazillion children online seeing these things and they're not sophisticated/mature or discerning enough to realize they're seeking AI fakery.
I miss the good old days of musical fraud, when the worst offense was Milli Vanilli receiving a Grammy for an album on which they were falsely credited as the singers.
Their lives were ruined and now that’s all there is 😢
You must be younger than me I remember the 70s fraudsters Boney M
@@ablestringer9063 I remember them; "Rasputin" was an earworm decades before the term was invented.
Blame the PRODUCERS of Mill Vanilli. They were the "money" people behind all of that. Two poor kids from Germany simply did what they were told to do. Yet, when the thing broke, they let them take all the blame, when they were basically "employees". The "boss" was their producer et al. THEY financed the whole Milli Vanilli project, AND knew exactly what was going on
Abuse of technology to mislead consumers should be as illegal as any other type of abuse. After first being paid for singing 66 yrs ago, I cannot hold a steady note beyond a beat or two today. I also cannot swim a km, lift 50kg, climb Kilimanjaro, or run a marathon any more. We need to recognise we're human, before we're made obsolete.
My daughter and I were discussing this last night. Actually just doing some marketing stuff for my studio, and we were getting so angry with one programme which kept trying to "magic write" for me, when all I wanted was to put contact details. And now my phone is demanding I use Gemini AI...for what? All I want is to type a comment. My own comment , with my own brain (and thumbs) and the AI developers seem to think I can't be allowed to do that.
Yeah messenger now has a built-in feature to let AI rewrite what you wrote and change the tone. It's not far to those of us who work hard to be good writers! I've gone back to university and i wonder how I will ever compete with kids using chat GPT and AI. :(
I have noticed that autofill does not suggest completion or even recognize words it does not like. One of the big problems here will be changing speech itself with suggested proper speech as well as speech that is more difficult due to autocorrect and the like. Most people will take the path of least resistance changing not only how we speak but how we think.
This is just the beginning. It only gets worse from here.
I a few weeks A.I. will attack Fil and claim he is a fake A.I. copy of an A.I. channel which of course existed already 1969.
Good job on this, Stallone! People have been using other's content for some time and often not giving credit. Nothing has been done about that yet. There's also been AI content being passed off as real. Often, people spot it, but I've seen AI content where I'm the only one that notices. People are cluelessly saying things like "that's beautiful, where is this?" or "That 90 year old lady shreds on the guitar!" Innocent enough, though, but if asked to disclose if it's AI, people should definitely disclose. But, some people are dishonest and won't. Superimposing like this, however, is a whole new level unless it's approved by the film owner or sold/licensed to the AI app for use.
There are too many gullible people, so it's easy to pass off fake things as real. The ones that bother me are disinformation, especially ones to create fear or that has to do with medical/health info. People run with these things and propagate the fear/disinformation and it becomes conspiracy theories. All for the purpose of some views!!!
"Hey, Alexa, tell me..." We've all seen those, right? Alexa doesn't say those things, but people run with it thinking it actually does know when World War 3 will start, etc. 🤦🏼♀️
I spent years writing and recording an all original track, paying an artist to make a stop-motion video, and I only got a few hundred views. Really discouraging. I don't like this world.
LOL.
@@tonyduncan9852why did you laugh at that?
@@tonyduncan9852 There's nothing funny about that.
How were we to know? Pay to advertise at least to the value of your investment in the work. Usually it takes years to build an audience. Say you got 90% better statistics on the video, you'd get 1,000 on the next, then 10,000 and so on. Getting hundreds on a new thing is fantastic. Also, we weren't invested in the project, you didn't film the making off run up, release teasers, etc. Most people ust aren't able to watch thousands of new videos to pick out the gems.
I don't even know which of your videos has stop motion in. Put it in the title at least, they're much higher effort and garner more attention.
Frankly i'd be happy with what i'd produced for it's own sake.
@@Yesica1993 If you are into IRONY, there is. I'm sorry, I should have elaborated but it was late at night.
AI Fil is something I wish I could unsee
Sly Fil? Me too
Looks scary, doesn't it? That guy looks creepy!
Dear "Rocky" Fil,
Hate to tell you this, but Adrian isn't real. Sorry, man.
Your ol' pal,
Apollo Creed
The point is that most people don't care at all if it is "fake" or not, they do not know the people on the screen anyway (too many videos). It is just entertainment.
this. and it will impact all sorts of industries, not just music. graphic design, voice actors, even OF models.... and on and on
@@doghous3 Sure, but it is not new and everybody knows it. How many imagines are "photoshoped" ? And most music does not come from a "real" instrument anyway, eg from a real piano with hammers and cords. So it is more about public acceptance. And of course the respect of the work of the artists, so as long as they agree...
The artificial girls and women got progressively more objectified so that I was afraid to see what would be next after the 3rd one. I think we can see what the AI has been trained on besides music and that's the reason for all the views. It's creeping me out that this is how so many see, and/or want to see women. I'm so sorry for the girls growing up now being bombarded with these images instead of seeing real women with real talent and accomplishments.
what about the 12 year old boys being targeted too 😳
Yeah, it’s all horrifying 😢
I agree. Not sure it's even about the music at all and all about the perving instead.
It is from the 60s anti-Christian communist sexual revolution that pushed all of this garbage.
It's sad that regression is seen as progression.
I've been thinking about starting my own you tube channel that will specifically focus on what I go through from start to finish writing a song, recording not just the guitar but playing all the parts myself, singing all the vocals with no autotune or pitch correct mixing, and mastering.
No AI. Mistakes included; to get rid of a mistake that I don't like, it's record the whole track again. Just like, you know, playing live.
If I do it, it will be interesting to see if this approach confounds AI bandits. Because Imma tell ya _what,_ I do not have any AI nor am I gonna get any. Just like I thought it would be, AI is being used in the foulest, most scurvy dishonest way. Screw that.
Gary Vee (who recorded nearly 1000 vine videos before his success started) recommends to show the audience your whole path including the failings coz "the path is the goal" ... so go for it ... and humans will like it ... and A.I. wont copy before you re really successful ... send me a link, when you start!!!
Unfortunately, the vast majority of the audience just doesn't care. Until they care, it will only get worse.
im impressed that you,as a pro musician,still can be so calm.. ^^
Sad times. It would be great if people with these technical skills would use them for the betterment of man. This is ridiculous. Thanks Fil.
Amen to what you just said-it would be better if people used their technical skills for the betterment of humanity. It’s really frightening how people are using AI to defraud others.
They do not have above average technical skills. As Fil demonstrated this software is available to all, but has great and legitimate film production utility and improve internet anonymity. The software itself is currently a 'you make it or others will' camp. It isn't a single great invention but a logical development from early machine learning.
Eventually the ideal is you can generate a custom film just for you that never existed before suited to your own tastes, even starring you and your family if you wished.
I think the best way an artist can protect their work is by using a form of watermark. Watermarks have been used in maps for centuries, where a particular cartographer would put a make-believe town into their map and if that appeared on any other map they would know the other cartographer copied their work. If a musical artist could put something in their video that would prove that the video was theirs, someone doing a face swap might not know about the watermark or might not be able to remove it.
Another tell of a fake video would be if the face is the only difference between two videos, the one that was uploaded first is likely the real one and something uploaded at a later date would be the fake. The artist can petition RUclips to review the two videos and analyze them to make their decision. But that's assuming the original artist even knows about the new fake video.
Major studios have used sonic watermarks for years.
I'm 55 now Fil. Long ago ago a music supervisor and a sub regional rock promoter. This frightens me.
Don't be.
Does my channel frighten you…
This could get so bad that the only thing we can trust is in-person interaction. it's hard to tell what is real even on this level when you're looking at such a small screen on a phone.
I agree. I think in person interaction is coming back, in fact my business is completely based on that.
I also live stream every week, so It will be interesting to see if that increases in the next year or not.
Who knows if in-person interaction will be real, either?
We might all be in The Matrix.
As a musician myself, I've seen these sorts.of videos and it is really alarming. Where indeed is the policing of this new type of plagiarism? How can it be policed anyway? The same type of fraud has also occurred with A.I writing novels in the style of known writers, such that the real human author cannot tell the difference. That is terrifying.
A.I could be used to help creativity I suppose but where are the boundaries? We are reaching the point where human creativity will be stifled completely and that is a terrible thing for humankind
This is why digital images were inadmissible in court but of course now they are if " properly authenticated " which is suspect. The only option in the future is to unplug, ditch your smart phone and get back to real life. Whether or not people are willing and able to do so will determine the relevance of AI in daily life. Save our libraries because we will most certainly need them.
yup, too easy to inject your face into any evidence that they want
Never had one ,tablet only no sim ,
I think all AI-generated images should have to have, by law, integrated invisible signatures of some kind. What if a legal case comes up in which a photo or video decides the case? There needs to be some form of being able to determine, if only for legal and not just ethical reasons.
creators should tick the box
Companies selling AI write in the agreement that they are not responsible for its use. It is a tool, the person who uses it is responsible for its use. But there are many countries in the world, there will be no identical laws.
Legit store web sites use security certificates to prove to web browsers that you’re visiting the true vendor and not some scam site. Perhaps these certificates could be used to apply a digital signature to creative works like videos or music. Artists would digitally sign their videos, and anyone could verify that a given video truly came from the real artist. Maybe Fil could ask a nerd friend if this idea makes sense. But if banks and stores online trust this tech it seems a good solution for musicians. Until quantum computing breaks everything that is.
@@timsummers9634blockchain should be able to do what you suggest.
Easy to notice➡️ Easy to notice if you are looking out for it➡️ noticable if you pay attention (we are here)➡️ hard to tell but still has clues if you assess it forensically➡️ just about impossible to spot (we will arrive here shortly)
I hate AI as much as the next guy. But I think another more subtle factor at play here is that we've been accustomed to "If it's a computer, you sign away all legal rights". It's been that way since the 90s. "By clicking 'I agree' , I give up my right to sue". Maybe it's time to reverse that? If you do the same thing (impersonate another human or represent yourself as another business) in the real world, you will get sued in your local jurisdiction. But we're all just resigned to the fact that it's just not possible with a tech company. Well, that can be changed:
state and local governments could step in and allow regular citizens to file small claims or "petty" ($10k-100k) lawsuits against youtube, ticktock, and any other major site. If the site doesn't consent to letting you have a right to sue, then the state revokes the right of the tech company to do business in their state. That doesn't have to be limited to censorship (I know the internet is notoriously difficult to block), but the states could (individually) make it illegal to buy advertising from Google, or pay for any google products, as a resident of their state.
I wish. :(
We have to play and sing ultra chaotically to protect ourselves. I'm doing my best.
😆😆😆 I've been singing out of tune and out of time to prove I'm not cheating! I think with this new face change, it will help if I try to look as ugly as poss...
System of a Down should be chaotic enough for a while.
That's actually pretty funny.
I am always "exploring microtonality". 😁
And this is a very correct idea. Such singers are already appearing. New vocal styles are needed. I also recommend using harsh vocals in pop music.
The other issue, which is already happening in photography/art is somebody makes a legitimately awesome piece of work the old fashioned way and it is dismissed as likely AI created. Music will be like that / oh that’s so good it’s probably just AI…
These videos are 0% about music, and 100% about perverts. The people that are watching these videos couldn't care less whether it's real or not. This concept of having a pretty guitarist look up and stare at you, really began with a truly brilliant guitarist named Gabriella Quevado, and then the imposters set to work taking it to a truly sick level.
My dad has a record from the 70's and he has a cucumber shoved down his tight pants to show off his package to women. It's always been 'about perverts' to some degree, but you are missing two other things. One, why are you assuming the views are comments are real? They're faked too. The other is chinese nationalists fetishizing chinese supremacy. It's a rabid market.
Besides, if women didn't fetishize guitarists i probably wouldn't have learned to play.
Yup. Porn. Dopamine.
yes, but tons of real woman pump the breasts for clicks, write off implants on taxes
3:15 dots and pickups? Her frickin HAND is stretching like rubber and disappearing!
To police this Fil they should hire Don Henley to put his team together as he will figure out a way to do it I'm sure! haha
In essence this is theft. In the UK if someone steals your car up grades it with wheels tyres go faster pack and a respray If, Mr plod come across it then it goes back to the original owner with all the goodies on it In this case all the ad revenue should go back to the original uploader
But it never will.
Right, it's obvious. If I kidnap someone, and while they're unconscious I hire an unscrupulous plastic surgeon to sculpt a new face on them... they don't become my property. "This obviously isn't the same woman in the license photo. Totally different face. Plus, THAT woman had fingerprints..."
It doesn't work that way. If you commit a 2nd crime, in order to try to cover up the first crime, that doesn't absolve you, even if you did a great job that would fool most people.
I'm usually very progressive about sampling... unless it's lazy sampling, which is what these examples are. Sample a whole track, have an app alter the most identifying aspect, and then reupload it as your own creation... that's not legit.
This isn't the case, actually. They do still have ownership over the extra parts and do have a claim there. Stealing more back off them isn't how our system currently works.
@@GizzyDillespeetheir new face is the intellectual property of the surgeon. If you stole canvas and had an artist make a masterpiece, it's still the artist's work and not the canvas owner's.
Anyone can rotoscope a work of film and it is transformative. Rarely done as it is tedious. When AI is used that's still transformative. You're in the copyrighting dance moves department. While some of this is illegal, if they were to use say two works to train the AI on, it would be completely distinct from both.
The fact is AI learning is modelled on human learning, so you'd have to ban humans from learning from these public works too somehow.
It'd be nice to prevent AI replacing the majority of human art. But it is unrealistic. On the plus side, AI can make custom music and art for those that could never afford it before. Best to embrace the benefits.
Wings ch def been scraped
As a musician myself who writes, records, mixes, masters my ‘own’ music and then creates music videos for my songs, AI is extremely disturbing. In fact, the whole digital distribution on my content has made me stop and re-think how I am distributing my work to the world.
As long as content creators give up their creations to music and video distribution to huge corporations via the likes of Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Google…etc all for the fame game, real music, and soon to follow real film, will be a thing of the past.
There should be so many lawsuits out there because of AI and the fraud of people using it to literally steal other peoples work and call it their own.
I can’t wait til people would rather go and see an AI band play live than real musicians!
The whole thing has gotten out of hand in a very very short time.
And that's just in the creativity sphere. I think humanity is in for a very rough ride thanks to AI.
no one cares when there is fake bots giving fake views pumping fake money around
Thanks for posting this video. Music is supposed to come from the heart and soul. This BS is just nauseating. I think you have to hit them in the pocket book because that's all they really care about. We may need to find a new way to share our original creations with others. Good luck everyone. Keep it real 🤞
Another reason to support live music/musicians at a local venue ❤
In the old-fashioned expression "brave new world," the word "brave" meant wild and unruly, not courageous. So yes, you're spot on using the expression.
Yeah this phrase is very appropriate, i love saying it all the time. In the original Shakespeare its kind of an ironic joke, 'brave' is meant to be unironically positive when said by the ignorant speaker, but we the audience know she is being super naive. "How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't."
Thank you for pointing out another facet of this AI travesty.
I've also been trying to keep up with what is happening with AI in the music industry and it is overly apparent that it is simply too fast to contend with as a mere musician. Some people are churning out album after album and releasing them onto the market with copyright claims that shouldn't even exist. But there are still no laws in place to deal with it. Not only that, but there are no mechanisms in place to even claim that it is AI generated when uploading to industry databases and aggregators.
You are right in what you say. How is this going to be policed? Especially now that it is approaching the point where it is becoming indistinguishable from the real thing.
Remember when they used to say 'the camera doesn't lie'?
Everybody lies. -Dr. House
Oh..I was not mentally prepared for the face swap to Stallone
Fil, your work exposing the misuse of AI in the music industry is truly groundbreaking. It's crucial for us to stay informed about these issues. Keep up the fantastic work!
- written by CoPilotAI
No one will AI my face as it's like a bulldog chewing a wasp. Lol😂
believe me, a good basis for art. 😂😊
AI is Artificial Intelligence and if you use it it's because you have none of your own.
Not so..
Couldn't agree more
There are some people who like AI-generated people as long as their good-looking. When something new comes out, it gets a lot of attention through sheer novelty. For me, I'm watching these clips mesmerized by the strange artificiality of it, but once the novelty wears off I'm sure I'd get bored of watching these "products". Professionally I do architecture and interior design, but one of my side hobbies is oil and acrylic on canvas. For about the past ten years I've been seriously considering using my drawing tablet to create art in Photoshop and similar programs. Then about a year ago I opted instead to learn watercolour, and I'm glad I did. AI and digital art in general has been cheapened, whereas I've noticed that people hold my watercolours on 300lb watercolour paper as if they're priceless antiques.
The Japanese have a term in art and craftsmanship called wabi-sabe, "perfection in imperfection", and only humans can do it. If an AI tried to do it it would be a vulgar display of tastelessness trying to mimic it. Why are things more expensive than others? A large part of it has to do with rarity. AI art is a dime a dozen now, whereas art produced by a skilled human hand is rare. This applies to videos and music, too. There's a growing backlash against CGI, and a growing backlash against Protools. AI can't match creations of human origin, because it has no human taste, no originality, and no agency or emotions; it doesn't understand what it's creating, it's just synthesizing others' superior work. Sorry about the rant, but this is something I have been following very closely to see how it affects what I do for work and pleasure.
Fil, I knew you had to make a video on this, being a female guitarist myself this made my blood boiled. Why only use only female guitarists, just to get more views? Ironically the guitarists they use are actually beautiful women, so why whoever is making these videos will they feel the need to superimpose a AI model to an already attractive-looking face? This is just setting an unrealistic standard on beauty. There needs to be some law to protect artists from AI stealing their material and profiting of it. There’s so much productive things we can do with AI in music or in anything else, this is just humans abusing technology once again!
I just looove that I was young in the 90's. No cameras, no internet, no social media, lots of optimism, simple living. Such a great sweet spot between hard times in the 80's and the madness nowadays. Another thought - I hope that live shows played by real musicians will be more appreciated and honoured. Most people can't even imagine the amount of work and time it takes to master an instrument.
hopefully the internet will be completely ruined by AI and bots and people will just dump it and go back to real life
Hard times in the 80s? We never had it so good. I mean, The Disease was scary but hopefully not if you were too young to catch it.
Many years ago I had the thought that as tv pictures are just made up of pixels, ultimately you could display anything at all if you could control those pixels - looks like we finally got here, wherever here is.
3:20 "...so if you're looking at the guitar" 😄
Yes, the videos are designed to showcase the "guitar"
The giant Marshall amp head behind the couch is a dead giveaway.
I saw that too. 😁
It is aggravating that these problems were always predictable and restrictions and ways to enforce copyright and privacy laws should have been developed immediately. Until then, the real world is right outside our doors. We should go see bands and plays live, attend in-person classes, and shop in stores as much as possible.
"People are watching this (AI) video..." What if those viewers are also bots/AI????? Dun dun dun
ive seen it happening already
Yep they're all over comment sections.
People,....go watch live music played by live musicians on stage please. Shut down the computer and support live performances that don't use autotune or AI. There's no substitute for watching a live performance by original artists in the moment. That's the only place left to find intrinsic performances that exemplify the human experience. Everything else is just untrustworthy these days. As a live performer, I live in the moment for that moment when on stage where magic happens every night but you have to be there to see and hear it because that should be what you want to see, not this AI fake waste of time. RBB 🎹
Remember how artists first went ballistic with AI generated art like Dall-E etc? We’re already way past this stage and even further. There’s no stopping unless social media sites bother to take massive actions to verify all videos with very extensive checks. This already has been prevalent for the past year with faceswap technologies.
I have reported loads of channels that are mimicking real artists channels, then uploading fake AI music videos with official on the thumbnails, so far RUclips have done nothing.
Oh no! Don’t stop, keep fighting! It will become more reported as Fil makes us aware of it.
Ken Tamplin’s actively trying to get his face on David Coverdale’s body in Whitesnake videos.
😂😂😂 I hate using emojis but I couldn’t resist. 😂😂😂
But he won't succeed because he can't resist using his tongue like a stick in the center of his mouth.😂
He can't even mine well. I'm much better, cause I'm more of a soul singer😂😂@@giuseppecapelli8328
Ken Tamplin is getting desperate, when he's getting inspired by David's button-up shirt nipples exposé. 😂
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🎶🎵 If I were a dead man,
yadadidldidldeedldeedledah.🎵
All day long I'd be singing on the sand,
Backed up by a band,
Strumming with 3 hands,
If I only I were no longer in this land.🎶🎵🎶
AI is dangerous and needs to go away. Sorry...not sorry.
AI is here to stay. Too powerful to go away.
@geirmyrvagnes8718 Ai channels are already out doing me and i was already a starving musician 😳
@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 And AI will only get better and more convincing from this point.
It won’t
One problem I can foresee with AI is in the field of law and justice. Picture this. A man is being tried for a bank robbery in which a bystander is shot dead. Someone who has a grudge against the defendant, creates a video, using AI, where the defendant's likeness is inserted, and is shown robbing the bank and shooting the bystander. They present it as having come from a surveillance camera. AI has gotten so advanced that it is extremely difficult to determine whether or not the video is authentic! This defendant could plausibly be convicted of a crime he has no knowledge about or connection with! This is just one example where AI is maliciously used against someone, I'm sure there are many others, limited only by one's imagination and creativity.
Oh, jeez......you're onto something here. It won't happen soon, but I'm sure there are those working on it. Those people in prison have computers and plenty of time on their hands, after all.
Just make an AI alibi video and you're good.
When you see some of the artists impressions of a criminal on some of the old crime stopper shows and realise a conviction was made I'm going out on a limb here and saying the basic cartoon AI app would be ample for framing someone.
Write the story immediately.
Video and pictures are already not a judicial proof in front of any court in the USA...don't know in the UK...
Soon will be harder and harder for witnesses to prove their said as any document pr source can be so easily falsified....politicians we love this and spread thousand of fake news manipulating people in their favor...futur is already doomed
Two things I noticed in the "Beat It" video around 8:00. 1.The "Les Paul" looks one-dimensional, like its likeness has been visually dubbed in. Then look at the "Marshall amplifier head" in the background...there's no cord plugged in to it. Keep pointing all this stuff out, Fil. I always admired your videos and talent and I admire you even more for pointing all this stuff out. There just seems to be no shame. Sad.
Actually, I do cook real food and play my guitars. My cat checks me in case I lose my sense of humanity.
there are little glitchy things around hair and eyes...the trick to catch the music thieves, would be to stick some trademark sound or notes that sort of identify you as playing it. I don't know how one would do that exactly. Kind of a 'sound watermark'.
Good idea - old time mapmakers used to do something like this, putting fake features on their maps so plagiarism could be spotted.
AI could easily search out and delete a watermark! The latest Google Pixel can use AI to add the photographer into a picture they are taking. There's nothing it can't add or remove.