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
Nick Cave, Kylie Minogue, and a parade of Australian musicians just discovered their life's work got vacuumed into AI training datasets so machines can learn to make discount music. Paul Dempsey perfectly summed it up: 'It's all just rendered useless.' Nothing says innovation like strip-mining an entire nation's musical heritage to teach a robot how to hum.