Written by Kanishka Singh
(Reuters) – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a bill on Thursday aimed at protecting artists, including musicians, from misuse of artificial intelligence.
This law is called the Similarity Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act.
Why is it important?
The presence of AI in music production can be traced back to the 1950s, but recent breakthroughs in generative AI have led to divisions within the industry as robots create music as digital pop stars. I am. Many experts say AI raises legal and ethical concerns.
Generative AI, popularized last year by the ChatGPT language system, can create content on its own, including original sounds, lyrics, or entire songs, but artists often use simpler AI to enhance their sounds.
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Tennessee’s bill updates Tennessee’s Personal Rights Protection Act to include “protecting the voices of songwriters, performers, and music industry professionals from the misuse of artificial intelligence,” the governor’s office said in a statement. .
According to the Governor’s Office, Tennessee’s music industry supports more than 61,617 jobs across the state, contributes $5.8 billion to the gross domestic product and fills more than 4,500 music venues.
Tennessee’s existing law protects names, images, and likenesses, but allows people to impersonate people and allows users to create unauthorized counterfeit works using images and voices of others. There was no specific mention of new personalized generative AI cloning models or services.
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More broadly, the rise of AI also raises many other concerns, including concerns that it could be used to disrupt democratic processes, accelerate fraud, or lead to job losses. It’s causing it. Europe is ahead of the US when it comes to AI-related regulation, with European lawmakers drafting the rules.
Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration has asked lawmakers to regulate AI, but the polarization of the U.S. Congress, with Republicans controlling the House and Democrats controlling the Senate, has made little progress in passing effective regulations. Not there.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Sandra Mahler)
