ElevenLabs launches Amnesty International’s music generator, allegedly wiped for commercial use

AI audio generation Unicorn eleven It announced a new model on Tuesday that allows users Music generationWhich is called for a commercial use.

This step represents the expansion of ElevenLabs beyond its main concentration so far during its three years of its existence, which has built Amnesty International’s audio tools. ElevenLabs is a leading company among companies that make Amnesty International products to words, and have expanded in them Conversation robots And the tools that translate speech into other languages.

In addition to launch, eleven laboratory sample participated Music created by artificial intelligence.

One of them features an artificial voice on how to “appear across cracks with ambition in my pocket” and leave his hometown, and travel from “Compton to Cosmos”. It is worrying to hear a computer that reflects the influence and language of artists such as Dr. Dre, NWA and Kendrick Lamar, who have already lived the experiences that this technology tries to simulate.

Looking at these concerns about the trained physical music generation tools, it is not very easy to give up the startups in the generation of music.

Last year, Suno and Udio prosecution Through the American Registration Industry Association (RIAA), the commercial organization that represents the American Music Industry. These lawsuits claim that Suno and Udio have trained music generation models on copyright -protected materials. Companies now It is said Discuss licensing deals with major registration stickers.

ElevenLabs has also announced deals with Merlin Network and Kobalt Music Group, a digital publishing platform for independent musicians, to use their materials to train artificial intelligence.

according to Merlin websiteThe company is major artists such as Adele, Nervana, Mitsky, Carly Ray Gibson, and Foyby Bridges; Cobalt It represents stars like Beck, Bon Iver and Childish Gambino.

A representative from Kobalt Techcrunch told artists to voluntarily take their music to use artificial intelligence.

“Our customers benefit directly from this agreement in several main ways: it opens the flow of new revenues in an increased market, and includes the participation of revenues until they participate in the upward trend, provides strong guarantees against violation and misuse, and provides compared comparable conditions with other publishing and registration owners,” said Kobalt Techcrunch.

Update, 12:50 pm EST, with a comment from Cobalt.