Australian musicians sound warning note after Nick Cave, Kylie and many more slurped into AI training tool

Paul Dempsey and Bernard Fanning are among big-name Australian musicians upset that their original songs have been found in datasets used to train artificial intelligence. A dataset search tool recently created by US publication The Atlantic reveals millions of creative works have been scraped from the internet to train the disruptive technology. It includes a vast catalogue of work by Australian artists, with tunes by Kylie Minogue, Powderfinger, Nick Cave and Jimmy Barnes, and novels by Thomas Keneally and Peter Carey. Dempsey had long suspected his music was being used by AI without his permission, and said he found the entire catalogue of his longtime band Something For Kate, as well as his solo tunes, using the search tool.