On the most popular streaming services we can spot more and more often AI-generated songs, that weren’t created by human. The average listener cannot tell the difference between an AI-generated song and one written by a human, but there’s a lot of songs that are very bad quality. Is this the future of music that we know, or is it a danger for music industry? Or maybe there’s no future in that?
Anyone can become a musical artist.
In the golden age of AI, there’s a lot of tools, which enable us to generate our music based on our preferences, in whatever style we want, and whatever topics we want. This allows us to create a song without knowing a single note. So, who exactly made a song? This type of music has a lot of supporters, but even more opponents, who think that people shouldn’t claim credit of these songs, and also that music created by AI models isn’t music at all. Supporters think that AI artist not only gives commands, but also makes lots of adjustments , such as sound processing.
Controversy
In addition to many positive aspects, AI-generated songs have also a downside. Generative AI Models often learn from the many songs available online, in many cases illegally, which often results in legal battles. There are also cases of generated songs with voices of real artists who know nothing about it. AI-generated songs also lose in the eyes of the public because of on many streaming services there’s lots of low-quality AI-Generated songs that users don’t wanna listen to, but still algorithms recommend these songs even if we selected one specified artist. And because of that we can find many initiatives against that type of songs.
AI in real music
AI-Music tools can be used also with real songs. Functions like Stem Separation allow us to separate vocal from very old songs, so that we can restore very old songs. More and more often also musicians who have been making real songs are using AI tools while making their own music.
In summary, certainly real-musicians for now aren’t in danger, and real music will be with us for a long time. AI-Generated songs are still a minority among all the songs, and popularity of real musicians was not harmed by AI models. And you, would you be able to love a song, knowing that it’s generated by AI models?
