Musicians go silent to protest AI

The World

Over 1,000 artists have worked together to record a brand new “silent album.” It’s called “Is This What We Want?” and it aims to highlight how empty the music industry would be without its human artists. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with producer Ed Newton-Rex about the project, and the concerns musicians have about the unregulated sampling of their work to train artificial intelligence.

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