FKA Twigs submits AI testimony to US senate

[genbu_no_miko24]

FKA twigs appears in front of U.S. Senate to advocate for artists’ rights, protection of likeness, and to speak out against exploitation with AI. pic.twitter.com/khok8al83s
- Pop Base (@PopBase) April 30, 2024

You can read her full testimony here

-In her written testimony, she writes:

“My art is the canvas on which I paint my identity and the

Comments

[tsukino]

I get what she's doing and what the commenters below are saying; She's controlling her own content with consent and getting revenue from it. But at the same time AI in general is insidious and promoting making your own AI is condoning AI (at least imho). If you make it, you support it. If you support it you're also a part of the system and a part of the problem.

And I get AI could be used for good. But that's not happening with rich people controlling it. Even the non-rich currently just use it to make art, to create novels/poems/etc, and to make fakes of what a song would sound like if X artist sang it. Which is ripping off other artist like Twigs is talking about here. Not to mention it's not like every artist will be able to create their own AI to regulate usage and get profit from it. So while what she's saying is good, she's really only taking a stance for artist like herself and forgetting smaller artist.

So, really, maybe I'm being pessimistic but I don't see how the tides could turn and it be used or regulated for positive things. I think the only way to go is to just shut this shit down indefinitely.

[umilicious]

I actually don’t think AI can be used for good, especially after all the brain rot of the last ten years. The world is too capitalistic for benevolent AI to become a thing. Everyone wants more for less and AI is the most convenient tool for that.