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‘Furious’: Darren Hayes Slams AI for ‘Stealing’ Music

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Singer-songwriter Darren Hayes says he feels ‘violated’ after discovering every song he has written across 30 years was secretly used to train AI music software.

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Australian singer-songwriter Darren Hayes claims his entire 30-year catalog was used without consent to train AI music generation software. This highlights growing tensions between heritage content creators and AI firms regarding data scraping and intellectual property rights. While focused on copyright and labor displacement, the grievance reflects broader governance challenges concerning the transparency of training data for frontier generative models. The case underscores the need for regulatory frameworks in Australia to address creative theft and the ethical deployment of large-scale AI systems.

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