The Impact of AI Music In Today’s Age
With the rise of AI in today’s age, there should be no doubts that AI will eventually come up with its own music as well. Our playlists are now a playground for AI-generated music, and many have expressed feelings of unease and concern over such a thing. Especially as many find it hard to distinguish between a real human and the deepfake tunes that are emerging everywhere.
A survey with nine thousand people by the music platform Deezer and research firm Ipsos involved participants listening to three songs and determining which were AI-generated or which were not. Ninety-seven percent of those participants were unable to tell the difference. Later, Deezer came up with a detection tool for AI in music. Since then, fifty thousand AI-generated tracks have been detected on the platform everyday.
AI continues to unsettle and anger many, with a crescendo in these feelings as an AI country band known as Breaking Rust topped Billboard’s digital country music charts. Previously, music streaming giant Spotify has signed with Sony, Warner, and Universal to develop AI music products.
However, there are still mixed reviews with the rise in AI music. Some do not feel as strongly as others do. Even companies that make musical instruments have a stake in AI music. “From our perspective, we see great opportunity for AI to be used as a tool to enhance and augment human creativity when the tools are developed responsibly, but we are opposed to consumption platforms that embrace purely AI-generated music positioned to compete with human creators,” says Paul McCabe, the senior vice president of research and innovation at Roland, a music manufacturing company.
The question now is whether or not AI-generated music and human-generated music can continue to coexist with each other.
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