AI is coming for music, whether we like it or not | Music News

AI has been building for a long time, but its fair to say it has hit the mainstream over the last couple of years.

Chat GPT – the automated AI assistant thingy – has been a big part of this. But AI’s foray into music, and the moral, financial and legal implications that come with this have also been huge.

AI builds its own knowledge by scouring data – this can be as wide as the entire internet, or as narrow as a specific phrase. The more data AI is exposed to, the more it learns and the more it is capable of. It’s quite staggering what AI can do when it comes to music. We can hear Frank Sinatra 'singing' Get Low, or Linkin Park 'playing' the Pokemon theme song.

The ability and capacity that AI is developing is staggering, and the more data and music it is exposed to, the stronger it will become

We’re pretty much already there, but the opportunities will be endless and basically without limitation

Whether we like it or not, AI is set to become a mainstay in the music industry, we simply cannot ignore it

This is already biggest disrupter to the music industry since MP3s or streaming – once all is said and done, it’ll likely be seen as much bigger

Enter Youtube:

YouTube announced one of this year’s most significant artificial intelligence developments in the music industry this week when it launched its new experimental AI feature that will allow select users to make song clips featuring AI-generated vocals of superstars including Demi Lovato, Sia, John Legend, Troy Sivan, Charli XCX etc.

Dream Track officially launched Thursday as an early beta test available only to about 100 selected creators in the U.S., and YouTube has given no indication if or when the new feature would become widely available. YouTube announced several new AI music tools this week — including one in development that could help turn songwriters’ thoughts into actual music just by humming an idea — though the voice clones were the most noteworthy feature.

Both the labels and YouTube itself have been careful to emphasize that Dream Track is an experiment, and that it isn’t immediately clear how the new feature will develop in subsequent months. But regardless of what happens next, Dream Track marks the first time some of the world’s biggest artists and music companies have granted their music to be used for voice clones — one of the more controversial uses of AI in music creation — a significant step that could pave the way on how the industry handles the technology going forward.

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