Indian Filmmaker Ditches Human Musicians for AI (techcrunch.com) 31
Indian filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma is ditching human musicians for artificial intelligence, saying he'll use only AI-generated tunes in future projects, a move that underscores AI's growing reach in creative industries. From a report: The filmmaker and screenwriter, known for popular Bollywood movies including Company, Rangeela, Sarkar, and Satya has launched a venture, called RGV Den Music, that will only feature music generated from AI apps including Suno and Udio, he told TechCrunch. Varma said he will use the AI-generated music in all his projects, including movies. The entire background score on his new feature movie, called Saree, is also AI-generated, he said. In an interview, Varma urged artists to embrace AI rather than resist it. "Eventually, the music comes from your thoughts. You need to have clarity on what you want the app to produce. It's the taste that will matter," he said.
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Doesn't matter. The RIAA is not picky about who it sends takedown notices to...
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RIAA is puny and pathetic compared to medical industry in terms of trigger happiness of lawsuits for copyright and patent violations.
India doesn't give a shit. Their medical industry exports tens of billions worth of medicines to the world, a lot of them under patent elsewhere and considered generic in India. That makes the sales number more impressive than it seems, because they sell medicines at generic level of prices rather than patented. It makes them world's biggest vaccine exporter too.
Re:Who? (Score:4, Informative)
He is a big deal in indian cinema.
Sometimes refer to as a pioneer of modern bollywood.
Re:Who? (Score:4, Informative)
Come on, is not hard [wikipedia.org] at all [imdb.com]
Star Wars spin-offs (Score:3)
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It's not like the Star Wars theme was wholly original either, Williams raided Holst's Planets for inspiration for a lot of the material and for the main theme also from the titles theme of a 1942 movie "King's Row": https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Creative (Score:1)
Is AI creative, or regurgitate? If the latter, then the film maker is using what essentially a human created and isn't getting royalties for.
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Regurgitate at least for "generative" AI. The mathematics do not allow anything else.
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We should call it "Derivative AI" instead of "Generative AI". It is a like a washing machine. You put everything inside, it gets blended and the dirty copyright gets cleaned.
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Is AI creative, or regurgitate? If the latter, then the film maker is using what essentially a human created and isn't getting royalties for.
The age old argument.
Then again, we here are just "regurgitating" 26 letters and some punctuation ... where do I send the royalty check?
That will be craptastic! (Score:2)
What I am interested to know is
a) Will that work with regards to the audience?
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b) Will that result in copyright problems or not?
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I do think that most techno-heads could enjoy AI generated techno though. So fo
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Bach is structured and mathematical in nature, I would think an AI would mimic the style of Bach rather quickly. Bach fans will know all his works well enough to spot any imposter; I had my Bach phase and I might do ok at detection though a very similar style could fool me.
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for b, it would be interesting to see if part of the product is derivative and un copyright-able, does it make the whole the same? some one here shed some light please.
Collaboration? (Score:2)
Will he be collaborating with Daler Mehndi [youtube.com]? After all, when you become the biggest Indi-pop artist of your time [wikipedia.org], you must be doing something right with music.
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Tunak Tunak tun
Re:AI replaces woke musicians who use computers (Score:4, Funny)
"woke"? I thought youse guys gave up on that term months ago. Aren't you suppose to be looking for Haitian musicians eating Fluffy?
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looks like that one flopped so it is back to the "oldies"
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Not until anything (Score:2)
The current reality however - for those who actually use AI agents in a creative manner today - is that these generative features can be used in a much more granular manner, for creating very specific
Danny Elfman (Score:2)
And so it begins (Score:4, Insightful)
Music stolen from artists, who will receive no compensation, gobbled up by some corporate AI bro, partially digested then vomited onto the public stage as "AI-generated".
Ram Gopal Varma is a leech...a parasite feeding on the work of others and claiming it as his own.
Do we have to? (Score:2)