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This is what I got. Looks pretty 1:1 for me.
Hilarious that it started with just "Buddy", like you'd be happy with only the first word.
Yeah, for some reason it does that a lot when I ask it for copyrighted stuff.
As if it knew it wasn't supposed to output that.
To be fair you'd get the same result easier by just googling "we will rock you lyrics"
How is chatgpt knowing the lyrics to that song different from a website that just tells you the lyrics of the song?
Two points:
Google spitting out the lyrics isn't ok from a copyright standpoint either. The reason why songwriters/singers/music companies don't sue people who publish lyrics (even though they totally could) is because no damages. They sell music, so the lyrics being published for free doesn't hurt their music business and it also doesn't hurt their songwriting business. Other types of copyright infringement that musicians/music companies care about are heavily policed, also on Google.
Content generation AI has a different use case, and it could totally hurt both of these businesses. My test from above that got it to spit out the lyrics verbatim shows, that the AI did indeed use copyrighted works for it's training. Now I can ask GPT to generate lyrics in the style of Queen, and it will basically perform the song texter's job. This can easily be done on a commercial scale, replacing the very human that has written these song texts. Now take this a step further and take a voice-generating AI (of which there are many), which was similarly trained on copyrighted audio samples of Freddie Mercury. Then add to the mix a music-generating AI, also fed with works of Queen, and now you have a machine capable of generating fake Queen songs based directly on Queen's works. You can do the very same with other types of media as well.
And this is where the real conflict comes from.