The melodies may be good, but AI bots wash music

WE knew that artificial intelligence (AI) would not leave any industry untouched – but it is about to completely overtake the music industry.

The success of Google’s music-making AI has raised some pretty serious questions about the future need for human musicians and their rights – when robots make music this good.

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The UK government announced this week that it plans to end the introduction of a copyright exception for text and mining purposes – including AI.

Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, chief executive of UK Music, an industry body representing artists and record companies, said the law had “paved the way for music laundering” and exposed creators and rights holders to exploitation.

“We are delighted to see the end of a policy that has done irreparable damage to the global track record of the UK music industry,” he continued.

The plan, which circulated as an idea last summer, would have allowed AI developers to use copyrighted works without the creators’ permission.

In a Commons debate in Westminster on Wednesday, Britain’s Science Secretary George Freeman said that AI is “progressing at a pace we have not had to deal with before in government”.

Sarah Olney MP, who brought the issue to Commons, said when she applied for the debate, no one had heard of ChatGPT – the popular AI bot now writing speeches for the Chancellor.

It seems like a new AI tool is launched every week, she added, which carries “significant risk”.

“AI is rapidly permeating the creative sector, creating visual art, prose, music and films at a pace and cost that humans cannot match,” she continued.

“For creatives, the risk of AI-generated material flooding the marketplace poses significant regulatory and ethical challenges.”

However, Pierre Barreau, CEO and co-founder of artificial composition tool AIVA, told The Sun that the rise of creative AI could instead help “democratize” music writing.

He explained that AI bots “will make it easier not only to create high-quality music at scale for content creators, but also to tell better stories by personalizing that music with the content itself, and how consumers do with it.” handle content”.

AI can give musicians a wider range of tools, e.g. B. access to the sound of every instrument in the world.

“It’s hard to imagine that more creativity in the world is anything but a net positive for humanity,” he said.

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