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Manchester Principles set out AI rules for music industry
A Manchester AI summit at Beyond The Music Festival produced the Manchester Principles, a rights-based roadmap on generative AI regulation for the music industry.
The Manchester Principles were designed as a first-of-its-kind industry-wide plan and rights-based roadmap to align creators, rights-holders, tech platforms, AI labs and policymakers on generative AI regulations. An AI summit at Manchester's Beyond The Music Festival came up with the principles, which are based on the idea that art is a human right.
Ian Murray MP, Minister for Creative Industries, said that 66 per cent of music creators believe AI poses a direct threat. Tom Kiehl, UK Music CEO, said issues such as mass-scraping, consent, deep-fakes and AI slop were huge for the industry and deeply personal to artists.
Beeban Kidron said that music and art needed special protection from AI due to the emotion and intention behind the work. Andrew Melchior is chief technical officer for Massive Attack and CEO of Genotone.
Clive Dickens argued at Beyond The Music that the UK must own more than the playlist when it comes to AI and music. He suggested the concept of 'Fair GPT', meaning future models would be fair governed, fair powered and fair trained. He named the hypothetical UK sovereign model 'Hope V.1' and set the challenge for it to be created by November 2027, when Manchester hosts the next G20 summit.
Cliff Fluet, summit chair and specialist media and entertainment lawyer, concluded the day's findings.
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