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The Justice Department filed its first-ever brief in an AI copyright case, warning a federal judge that licensing requirements for training data would threaten national security. It didn't mention that the administration was reportedly negotiating a 5 percent equity stake in OpenAI at the same time.
Guitarist Marc Ribot argues in The Progressive that AI music can replicate performance but not the ritual function music has always served: channeling communal grief and conflict. He backs it with a labor-theft case study, a history of music once branded dangerous, and a warning about what happens when the ritual gets automated.
A Stanford GSB study by Samuel Goldberg and UCLA's H. Tai Lam tracked a stock-image marketplace after it allowed AI-generated art: volume up 78 percent, prices down, and a 23 percent drop in human artists. Consumers were thrilled. The artists were not consulted.
UNCTAD has formally linked recent entertainment-industry layoffs to generative AI adoption, arguing that AI can mimic existing styles but not originate new ones the way human artists do. The agency warns that displacing human creators risks "model collapse" and a static, endlessly recycled creative culture.