AI is a hot topic of discussion lately. ChatGPT is among the AI websites being used to create scripts. Dall-E is an image “creating” website made by OpenAI, and MuseNet is one of the many programs used to create what is now referred to as “AI music”.
If you’ve never heard any of the AI music that is recently surfaced, you’re in for a surprise. Upon first listening to some of these AI-generated songs, you will be amazed at how realistic they sound. As a result, people are starting to become concerned as to how this music will impact the music industry moving forward.
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For upcoming producers and smaller artists, AI music has been a beneficial experience as of late. When music artists begin to explore what AI can do for the writing and production of their music they might benefit from it, but they also might fall down a path that loses them their artistic ability that got them to that point.
Where the real problem exists with AI music is the hyper-realistic songs that are being created using some of the biggest artists (both dead and alive) in the world. The most widely heard of example of an AI generated song is a Drake and The Weeknd collaboration created by a “ghostwriter” titled “heart on my sleeve”.
The process of creating one of these songs from scratch can be a little complicated, but using voice modelling programs and script writing AI together can result in what sounds like a real masterpiece of a song. Record labels are now taking actions against these AI generated songs, and this is only the beginning of the impact that AI music will have on the music industry.
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Moving forward there will be extra scrutiny put on AI music that is released with the intent of “stealing” the artists voice and flow to create an original yet realistically sounding song. Since AI is still considered to be in its early stages of development, the models will improve rapidly in the coming years, so the music industry will need to quickly prepare for where AI music is headed.
Music, like any other form of art, should be about the creative aspects. Each talented individual possesses their own traits which make them unique, and these traits should not be able to be stolen and replicated by AI. Creativity of the mind is what makes the world of music such a great thing, so let’s not take that away from our favourite artists.
We will see in the coming months what happens with AI music, but it is an intriguing topic that is worth exploring because of the uncertainty of this ongoing development.