Sen. Marsha Blackburn Was Upset Over AI Garth Brooks
Tennesse Senator Marsha Blackburn sparked an exchange over AI models’ use of copyrighted material with an unexpected example: AI Garth Brooks. The Senator told Altman she had heard an AI trained on the country singer produce a convincing adaptation of his work. Blackburn used the example to demand artists receive compensation from Altman’s company if their works helped train an AI model. Altman seemed open to the idea of compensating artists but wouldn’t land on any specific path forward.
“We lived through Napster,” Blackburn said. “That was something that really cost a lot of artists a lot of money.”
