Last month, the Recording Academy announced a series of changes to the Grammy Awards to better reflect an evolving music industry. Of those newly instituted guidelines, protocols involving technological advancements in machine learning sparked headlines: "Only human creators" could win the music industry's highest honor in a decision aimed at the use of artificial intelligence
Unlike previous waves of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, generative AI tools seem uniquely capable of being creative.1 In a short time, generative AI has empowered legions of creators, disrupted industry workflows, and sharply amplified challenges to intellectual property, trust, and ownership. Ultimately, these tools could shape a fundamentally new world of media and entertainment.2 Generative AI
If there’s one thing people constantly consume throughout the world every day, (apart from food of course) it is music. Whether you’re on your long and tiring commute or preparing for exams, cooking a meal, or going for your evening walk, music is your one true partner, literally in sickness and in health. With an
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Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company with artists including Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Elton John, is opening its doors to AI. The company is partnering with Endel, the generative music company that creates AI-powered personalized sound environments, to enable the algorithmic creation of soundscapes for both new music and catalog recordings. The
Sting says musicians face "a battle" to defend their work against the rise of songs written by artificial intelligence. "The building blocks of music belong to us, to human beings," he told the BBC. "That's going to be a battle we all have to fight in the next couple of years: Defending our human capital
With rapid developments in AI and the implementation of the technology unilaterally across business sectors, there is heated debate in the Hollywood music scene over whether AI should be used in music production — and to what extent. The debate intensified last week when a TikTok user by the handle ghostwriter977 posted a two-minute video that sounded a
TikTok is an essential promotional tool for music artists and record labels. Songs can rise up organically on the app even if they've been outside the mainstream for decades. Marketers can also hire influencers to help a song take off, sparking a wave of user-generated posts from their fans. And some artists even set up private listening sessions with TikTok
Just days after OpenAI dropped ChatGPT in late November 2022, the chatbot was widely denounced as a free essay-writing, test-taking tool that made it laughably easy to cheat on assignments. Los Angeles Unified, the second-largest school district in the US, immediately blocked access to OpenAI’s website from its schools’ network. Others soon joined. By January, school districts
Technology is ubiquitous. Thus it is hardly surprising that it has had a profound influence on the art of music in the twentieth century. It has altered how music is transmitted, preserved, heard, performed, and composed. Less and less often do we hear musical sound that has not at some level been shaped by technology:
