"Top Musicians Unite Against AI Threat to Music Industry"

Over 200 musicians, including Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, and Katy Perry, have signed an open letter denouncing the use of AI in the music industry, warning against deepfakes and cloning. The letter urges industry leaders to cease the use of AI to infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists, emphasizing the potential catastrophic impact on royalty payments for artists. It also highlights the need to protect against the predatory use of AI to steal professional artists' voices and likenesses, violate creators' rights, and degrade the music ecosystem. This comes amid ongoing conversations about AI use in the entertainment industry, with last year's actors' and writers' strikes partly driven by demands for job protection as AI usage increased.