To make AI music, you need an AI model to train from human music. Does that include music from Australian artists, too?
AI is everywhere you look, and depending on what it’s being used for, there’s a possibility it learned how to do just that from something it didn’t have permission to learn from.
In the case of AI music, that is more likely to definitely be the case, which works because AI models have been trained on massive music libraries, and in turn given access to regular people to create AI-generated music from what they’ve learned.
Over in the US, one publication has even revealed what those tracks are, some of which have come from Australian artists. So what can they do, and how widespread a problem is AI’s intellectual copyright theft?
Find out just how deep the rabbit hole goes as Pickr’s Leigh Stark joins ABC’s Joel Spreadborough on ABC Brisbane Sunday Morning. Check out the segment from the June 28, 2026 programme, starting from around the 47 minute and 30 second mark (48.30).
