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Australian musicians sound warning note after Nick Cave, Kylie and many more slurped into AI training tool

2026-06-26 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

AI training datasets have been caught slurping up millions of songs from Australian artists including Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue without permission. Musicians are furious that their life's work has been reduced to training data for machines that'll pump out soulless imitations. Nothing says 'we respect artists' like scraping their entire catalogs to teach a robot to write music.

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