AI Is Stealing Aussie Music

Australia’s biggest music stars are furious as their iconic songs—think Powderfinger and Kylie Minogue—are being fed into AI training datasets without permission, sparking outrage from artists like Paul Dempsey and Bernard Fanning, who feel their careers and creative integrity are being erased. Darren Hayes, whose Savage Garden catalog was found in these databases, called it a theft of his sweat and tears. These datasets, including Sleeping-DISCO-9M and LAION-DISCO-12M, scrape YouTube and lyrics sites, while music licensing groups label it theft. Despite Australia’s copyright laws demanding consent and payment, tech giants push for exemptions, even lobbying to legalize unpaid use—though the government recently blocked that. Artists argue AI can’t replicate human emotion, making this not just a legal issue, but a betrayal of artistic soul. Support the show:Get a discount at https://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/e79b370e5202c776