Damien Riehl, technology enthusiast involved in the project of putting every musical melody in the public domain, discusses the complexities of proving subconscious infringement of melodies and the ethical and legal questions surrounding computer-generated music. The podcast also explores the mathematical aspects of music and compares the concept of the Library of Babel to chat GPT, discussing the intersection of creativity, technology, and copyright law in the music industry.

As a technologist, coder, and lawyer, few people are better equipped to discuss the legal and practical consequences of generative AI than Damien Riehl. He demonstrated this a couple years ago by generating, writing to disk, and then releasing every possible musical melody. Damien joins us to answer our many questions about generated content, copyright, dataset licensing/usage, and the future of knowledge work. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring:Damien Riehl – Mastodon, Twitter, LinkedInChris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: Talk - Legal and Practical Consequences of Generative AI (LLMs like GPT, Bart, PaLM, LLaMA, Alpaca, Codex) Talk - Why All Melodies Should Be Free for Musicians to Use | Damien Riehl | TED Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In this episode, Damien Riehl, an expert in copyright claims, discusses his 'All the Music Project' and the potential impact of AI technologies on creative professions. He addresses legal questions surrounding machine-created melodies and explores progress in creating melodies with different scales and rhythm.

Damien Riehl, Vice President and Solutions Champion at vLex, discusses vLex's new product Vincent AI, crafting arguments using real cases, confidentiality concerns in AI training, the importance of common tagging methodology, and the 'All the Music' project that generated billions of melodies to protect against copyright infringement.

In this discussion, Damien Riehl, VP at vLex and a leader at SALI, dives into the transformative power of legal data science and AI. He highlights vLex's ability to structure a billion legal documents for efficient access. The conversation touches on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and its role in providing reliable legal insights, drastically reducing research time for lawyers. Damien also examines how generative AI could disrupt traditional billing models, particularly benefiting plaintiff-side lawyers by enhancing profitability and efficiency.