The latest development tips the scales in favor of use: A judge has rejected Universal Music Group, ABKCO and other music publishers' preliminary bid to block Anthropic from using their lyrics to train its AI assistant Claude, Reuters reports. US District Judge Eumi Lee ruled that UMG and co had submitted too broad a request and failed to demonstrate that Anthropic's use of the lyrics caused the companies "irreparable harm." Lee stated, "Publishers are essentially asking the Court to define the contours of a licensing market for AI training where the threshold question of fair use remains unsettled." The two sides came to a partial agreement in January of this year.

Abba's Björn Ulvaeus, the actor Julianne Moore, the Radiohead singer Thom Yorke are among 10,500 signatories of a statement from the creative industries warning artificial intelligence companies that unlicensed use of their work is a "major, unjust threat" to artists' livelihoods. "The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted," reads the statement. Thousands of creative professionals from the worlds of literature, music, film, theatre and television have given their backing to the statement, with authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Ann Patchett, and Kate Mosse, musicians including the Cure's Robert Smith as well as the composer Max Richter and actors including Kevin Bacon, Rosario Dawson and F Murray Abraham. The organiser of the letter, the British composer and former AI executive Ed Newton-Rex, said people who make a living from creative work are "very worried" about the situation. "There are three key resources that generative AI companies need to build AI models: people, compute, and data. They spend vast sums on the first two – sometimes a million dollars per engineer, and up to a billion dollars per model. But they expect to take the third – training data – for free," he said.

Ricardo Santiago, director at Diamond Behavioral Health, tells Fox News Digital about the'One Week No Booze' trend and how it could impact relationship with alcohol. In a significant blow to TikTok, Universal Music Group (UMG) has initiated the removal of its extensive music catalog from the platform, impacting global superstars such as Taylor Swift, Drake and Olivia Rodrigo. This drastic action comes as a result of failed negotiations to renew the licensing agreement that allowed TikTok to feature music from some of the biggest names in the industry. TAYLOR SWIFT IS THE LATEST HIGH-PROFILE DEEPFAKE VICTIM. HERE'S WHAT LAWMAKERS ARE DOING TO PROTECT THEM The discord between the two giants centers on several critical issues, including financial compensation for artists and songwriters, the handling of AI-generated music, and measures to ensure online safety, safeguarding against hate speech, bigotry, bullying, and harassment.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has proved a controversial matter in the music industry – resulting in legal tussles, job losses and a decline in musical quality. However, British pop icons the Pet Shop Boys argue that the technology can be used in a positive way in the creative process. The group's singer, Neil Tennant, said AI could'fill in the blanks' if a song has been left unfinished, such as when the composer is suffering from writer's block. Tennant and his bandmate Chris Lowe said they are looking at new technology as they prepare their'Dreamworld' greatest hits tour in Europe this summer. 'There's a song that we wrote a chorus for in 2003 and we never finished because I couldn't think of anything for the verses,' Tennant told the Radio Times.

The notion that Drake allegedly uses a ghostwriter to write his rhymes is a conspiracy that has haunted the rapper for years. He told Genius that he doesn't lean on ghostwriters, saying, "Any song that really, really did damage for me, I wrote every single lyric." The rumors were also the subject of his famous feud with rapper Meek Mill, spawning his pair of diss tracks, "Charged Up" and "Back to Back." But now, a more ominous presence has appeared on social media platforms to actually ghostwrite a Drake song--sort of. Last weekend a TikTok creator by the name of @ghostwriter977 uploaded a video in which they premiered an AI-generated "Drake" track titled "Heart on My Sleeve" with a faux-assist from a similarly AI-generated The Weeknd.

If you spent almost any time on the internet this week, you probably saw a lot of chatter about "Heart on My Sleeve." The song went viral for featuring AI-generated voices that do a pretty good job of mimicking Drake and The Weeknd singing about a recent breakup. Listen to this AI generated song featuring Drake & The Weeknd. It goes so damn hard. UMG, which controls around 1/3 of the global music market, has already asked streaming platforms to ban… pic.twitter.com/roz2EfI48M

The following MBW op/ed comes from Michael Nash (pictured inset, below), Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer, Universal Music Group. AI is transforming the ways we live, work and play – from chatbots that answer complex questions to systems that can write passable screenplays to programs that have passed part of a bar exam in the US. AI is now creating imagery comparable to professional artists -- with one AI-generated portrait being sold for £40,000 at Sotheby's and another composition winning a State Fair competition in Colorado. Learning from millions of images with associated descriptions of subject matter, composition, methodology and other inputs, the most advanced AI can now generate derivative output that closely mimics original creators' distinct styles. In some cases, this is used to produce outright fakes.