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Microsoft’s Copilot Sings a New Tune: AI-Generated Music, Now With More Legal Drama!
Through an integration with the GenAI music app Suno, Microsoft’s Copilot users can now generate complete songs (including lyrics and instrumentals) from simple prompts. This new feature, announced on the Microsoft Bing blog, will make music creation accessible to those who can describe what they feel, but don’t have the musical abilities to realize their creations without production help.
AI in Music: A Song of Creativity and Controversy
On the second episode of Rosie Bennet’s new podcast, Fret Not, legendary guitarist Brian May (Queen) says he believes this year could be the last when we can distinctly identify a song as composed by a human. He’s right. AI-assisted content creation is now a fact of life, and it will soon become as impossible to avoid AI assistance as it is to go “off the grid.”
YouTube’s ‘Dream Track’: AI Music Experiment with Artist Collaboration
YouTube unveiled “Dream Track,” an AI music experiment in collaboration with Google DeepMind.
Adobe’s Sound Lift Isolates Individual Sounds from a Single Audio File
The Verge asked the question, “AI is capable of making music, but does that make AI an artist?” Wow, is that the wrong question.
YouTube’s New Policy on AI-Generated Music (and other content)
YouTube is introducing a policy change that will require creators to label AI-generated videos, with a heightened emphasis on music content.
Universal Music vs. Anthropic: The AI Copyright Conundrum
Universal Music’s recent lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic underscores a pressing issue at the intersection of AI and copyright law.
Spotify Launches AI Voice Translation Pilot
Spotify has launched a pilot called Voice Translation for podcasts, an AI-powered system that clones original voices as it translates podcasts into different languages using technology from OpenAI.
AI and Music: YouTube’s Vision
YouTube will work closely with music partners, including Universal Music Group, to develop an AI framework that “respects and enhances the creative expression of music while ensuring the protection of artists and their work.”
AI Can Hum a Tune. But Is It Music or Just Notes?
Meta AI has introduced AudioCraft, a text-to-music AI model that does an impressive job of composing, arranging, orchestrating, and playing in a wide range of musical styles.
AudioCraft: Meta AI’s Text-to-Sound Model
In a stunning display of AI prowess, Meta AI has introduced AudioCraft, a single-stop code base that does an impressive job of composing, arranging, orchestrating, producing and playing music.
Paul McCartney Uses AI to Create “The Last Beatles Record”
Sir Paul McCartney has announced the creation of a new Beatles song with the help of AI. Using a technique called “stem separation,” the technology was employed to isolate John Lennon’s voice from an old demo.
AI Voice Cloning Danger
Generative AI has presented the music industry with new challenges. You’ve probably heard about the AI-generated song featuring cloned vocals of Drake and The Weeknd.
Grimes Offers 50% Music Royalties to AI
@Grimezsz tweeted: “I’ll split 50% royalties on any successful AI generated song that uses my voice. Same deal as I would with any artist i collab with. Feel free to use my voice without penalty. I have no label and no legal bindings.” The debate about the legal and ethical implications of awarding royalties to AI programs is raging.
The Music Business Will Never Learn
A viral AI-generated song mimicking Drake and The Weeknd’s vocals, titled “Heart on My Sleeve,” has been removed from multiple streaming platforms – including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, SoundCloud, Tidal, Deezer, and TikTok – following a complaint from Universal Music Group (UMG). The song was streamed 15 million times on TikTok and attracted 600,000 plays on Spotify and 275,000 views on YouTube before being taken down.
ASCAP for AI?
As I think about the issues that artists and creators of every kind are having with the way their works are being used to train AI, I’m wondering if a version of “ASCAP for AI” or “ASCAP for the web” is something we should be thinking about.
Human Voice Over vs. AI Voice Over
The impact of AI on commercial production has already started with small ads and social content. (Listen closely to some of the synthetic voices used to narrate TikTok or YouTube videos.)
Bigger than ChatGPT, In its Own Way
MusicLM is a model that generates high-fidelity music from text descriptions like “a calming violin melody backed by a distorted guitar riff.” It’s mind-blowing – and it isn’t even a commercial product yet.
If you like AI-generated images, you’ll love AI-generated music
Holly+, the AI-generated digital twin of experimental musician Holly Herdon, does a pretty good job singing “Jolene,” Dolly Parton’s country classic.
And the Grammy goes to… AI
In 2030, who – or what – will be eligible to win a Grammy? What will the categories evolve into? Will music need to be recorded at all?
Music by AI – A Warning Label Is Now Required
The Verge asked the question, “AI is capable of making music, but does that make AI an artist?” Wow, is that the wrong question.