Bernard Fanning

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7am · “It’s f***ing bad manners” Bernard Fanning on AI robbing Australian music · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

It's becoming increasingly difficult.

And I mean, part of that is that music and art in general, film too, they've been devalued so much in the last 25 years so that now, you know, you have a subscription model where you pay 11 bucks a month for the entire history of recorded music.

you know, you are probably around the same generation as me, Dan, and we used to pay $30 for one album.

Mind you, you know, maybe $2 of that went to the artist, split six ways or whatever it was, right?

That's right.

And this is obviously we're talking about this as an Australian example, but this is also a gateway for that to happen to all the music that's ever been made, you know.

And most of us that are interested in music treasure that.

And I don't think many people would think that it's fair that it was...

just able to be used without permission and without payment, you know?

And on top of that, it's just, it's fucking bad manners.

And that's seriously lacking in society these days.

Well, I mean, are there many people out there going and searching for AI content?

And I call it content on purpose because that's what it is.

It's not music.

It's content.

It's just a series of ones and zeros that are aggregated, right?

I mean, we tend to think of musicians as people that you see at Splendour in the Grass or whatever, you know, you see them on stage and whatnot.

But there's thousands more that are composers that write music for advertising or television or whatever as well that are obviously probably at even more danger than people that are writing music for kind of general public consumption as a band or whatever.

So there's so many layers to this.

that the public has a responsibility, I suppose, to refrain from using it, but also that also goes to advertising agencies, film, soundtrack directors and whatnot to not use it because it's actually undermining the entire industry.

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