UMG & Sony Endorse SoundPatrol’s ‘Neural Fingerprinting’ Tech to Help Curb AI-Driven Theft

SoundPatrol has entered a concern with Universal Music Group and Sony Music to support artists from copyright infringement coming from AI euphony models.

According to a property release, SoundPatrol specializes successful utilizing a “forensic AI exemplary for audio-video fingerprinting.” Through neural fingerprinting, SoundPatrol claims it tin analyse afloat (or partially) AI generated songs to place influences and traces of human-made music.

For the euphony industry, uncovering retired ways to fingerprint, way and property traces of copyrighted worldly successful AI songs is the cardinal to decently compensating and crediting endowment for their enactment erstwhile it’s utilized to power AI models. In caller months, AI companies similar Udio and Music AI person proactively announced partnerships with Audible Magic to assistance fingerprint their works.

But UMG and Sony’s support of SoundPatrol’s “neural fingerprinting” attack represents a large co-sign for this benignant of technology, which SoundPatrol claims is “a important advancement beyond accepted audio fingerprinting techniques”

“Traditional audio fingerprinting… chiefly rel[ies] connected matching nonstop audio snippets. Neural embeddings seizure semantic relationships to place covers, remixes and generative-AI derivatives,” the property merchandise states. SoundPatrol besides has aboriginal plans to make tools and models that volition “proactively assistance third-party platforms and probe labs forestall copyright violations,” the property merchandise reads.

SoundPatrol is simply a institution that originated successful a Stanford University laboratory and was founded by apical AI, instrumentality learning and cybersecurity academics. This includes Walter De Brouwer Ph. D., SoundPatrol’s co-founder and CEO, and Percy Liang Ph. D. (director of the Center for Foundation Models and starring Stanford’s Marin, the Open Lab for Building Foundation Models), Chris Re, Ph. D. (Stanford AI Lab, Director of FactoryHQ), and Dan Boneh, Ph. D. (Director of the Applied Cryptography Lab and Co Director of the Cybersecurity Lab).

Lucian Grainge, UMG’s president and CEO, says of the deal: “We’re perpetually focused connected enabling AI — bringing to marketplace the galore commercialized and originative opportunities that volition payment our artists portion establishing effectual tools to support them. Bringing solutions to the array that enactment the full manufacture is astatine the bosom of our narration with SoundPatrol, who stock our committedness to safeguarding our artists’ originative integrity and work.”

“The possibilities of AI contiguous opportunities for artists and creators erstwhile utilized the close way,” says Dennis Kooker, president of planetary integer concern astatine Sony Music. “We’re committed to navigating this processing scenery by protecting their enactment portion besides exploring the innovative imaginable of these technologies. Our collaboration with SoundPatrol is astir respecting artists’ rights to physique a sustainable and equitable ecosystem for everyone.”

“Generative AI is transforming euphony successful bonzer ways, but if we wantonness copyright, we hazard severing artists from ownership of their ain work,” says Walter De Brouwer, SoundPatrol co-founder and CEO. “It is compulsory to proactively provender heavy embeddings of these neural signatures into streaming infrastructures truthful that owners tin support control, authenticity, and monetization of their intelligence spot successful the generative AI era. Eliminating copyright to accelerate AI is similar changing the velocity of airy to beforehand physics — it misunderstands the cardinal laws that prolong creativity.”

Michael Ovitz, SoundPatrol co-founder and president of the board, adds: “This is simply a immense triumph for each artists successful the originative universe.” He continued: “One of the premier issues affecting artists has ever been the extortion of their intelligence spot rights. SoundPatrol has answered the long-standing proble...