{"id":371110,"date":"2025-12-25T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/371110\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T14:36:21","slug":"mal-meninga-kuri-sounds-the-alarm-bell-over-the-threat-posed-to-real-png-music-by-ai-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/371110\/","title":{"rendered":"Mal Meninga Kuri sounds the alarm bell over the threat posed to real PNG music by AI creators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After more than 20 years in the PNG music industry, award winning artiste Mal Meninga Kuri says he is fighting a battle to save the authentic sound and spirit of Papua New Guinea&#8217;s legendary performers.<\/p>\n<p>The threat comes from AI &#8211; Artificial Intelligence, and the rising prevalence of computer generated cover versions of songs that offer no financial benefit to their creators whatsoever. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a passionate social media post, Mal described the practice of AI covers as unethical and disrespectful and risks tearing the heart out of the PNG music industry.<\/p>\n<p>Now his campaign is gathering momentum, with growing support not just from within the music industry, but from the corridors of power as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After more than 20 years in the PNG music industry, award winning artiste Mal Meninga Kuri says he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,42755,200749,3755,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-371110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-copyright","14":"tag-mal-meninga-kuri","15":"tag-podcast","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}