{"id":242686,"date":"2026-07-13T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/abbas-bjorn-ulvaeus-on-ai-training-at-un-summit-we-should-be-paid-for-what-went-in\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:00:10","slug":"abbas-bjorn-ulvaeus-on-ai-training-at-un-summit-we-should-be-paid-for-what-went-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/abbas-bjorn-ulvaeus-on-ai-training-at-un-summit-we-should-be-paid-for-what-went-in\/","title":{"rendered":"ABBA\u2019s Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus on AI training at UN summit: \u2018We should be paid for what went in.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/abbas-bjorn-ulvaeus-at-human-creativity-is-not-the-enemy-of-artificial-intelligence-it-is-the-reason-artificial-intelligence-exists\/\">ABBA\u2019s Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus on AI training at UN summit: \u2018We should be paid for what went in.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/abbas-bjorn-ulvaeus-at-human-creativity-is-not-the-enemy-of-artificial-intelligence-it-is-the-reason-artificial-intelligence-exists\/\">https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/abbas-bjorn-ulvaeus-at-human-creativity-is-not-the-enemy-of-artificial-intelligence-it-is-the-reason-artificial-intelligence-exists\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-13 06:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\">www.musicbusinessworldwide.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the main points from Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus&#8217; speech at the United Nations\u2019 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Defining AI for Good:<\/strong> Ulvaeus proposes that AI is &#8220;good&#8221; when the creators whose work enabled it are not erased by it, and when they consent to and share in what the technology creates. He cites ABBA Voyage, where digital avatars of ABBA perform with the band&#8217;s consent, as an example of AI done right.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Concerns with Generative AI:<\/strong> He argues that generative AI models have been trained on centuries of human music, including his own work, without consent or compensation, raising ethical and legal concerns.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Proposal for Fair Compensation:<\/strong> Rather than tracing creators\u2019 work in AI outputs, Ulvaeus suggests paying creators for the inputs that train AI systems\u2014akin to collective licensing and revenue sharing models used in streaming services.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Collective Licensing Model:<\/strong> He advocates for a share of AI subscription revenues to flow back to creators collectively, proposing an infrastructure and principle already established by the music industry.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Call for Political Will:<\/strong> Ulvaeus emphasizes that what is missing is not infrastructure but political will to enforce fair compensation policies universally, not just for those powerful enough to sue.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Long-Term Creative Economy:<\/strong> He warns that failing to protect human creators will eventually lead to a shortage of original human creativity for AI to learn from, highlighting the need to ensure a thriving creative economy for future generations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Past Adaptations:<\/strong> Ulvaeus notes the industry&#8217;s historical ability to embrace technology while protecting creators and suggests that reasonable decisions in the future will follow the same path.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABBA\u2019s Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus on AI training at UN summit: \u2018We should be paid for what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/files\/2025\/05\/Bjorn.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-242686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242688,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242686\/revisions\/242688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}