This was an oddly set up article. Slide show followed by regular article. I put the regular article first and a “teaser” on the slide show afterwards. | By Amanda Hoover, Insider | Last month, “Walk My Walk” hit number one on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart. The moody stomp-clap tune, with lyrics like “Every scar’s a story that I survived, I’ve been through hell, but I’m still alive,” has been played more than 8 million times on Spotify. The song wasn’t performed by a human artist — Breaking Rust, despite having the face of a handsome, rugged man in a cowboy hat on its Spotify profile, is an AI project. But there is a real person claiming that Breaking Rust’s work is a copycat: Blanco Brown, an artist who mixes country and rap together, who claims the song’s creator used AI to emulate his style. The person behind Breaking Rust did not respond to a message I sent asking about the origin of the sound.
It’s the latest example of ways that AI-generated music, with its opaque origins, can create confusion around who really made a song just as easily as it can create a hit. AI-generated music that sounds a lot like your faves but was made with a few prompts has been going viral, spreading far and wide and more quickly than music labels can always have it removed.
When some of the first AI-generated tracks started racking up listens two years ago, music labels went to battle, threatening and filing legal action to stop AI generators from training on and using their artists’ voices and music stylings. Universal Music Group (UMG) pushed to have a YouTube video where Eminem’s voice rapped about cats taken down. Spotify removed AI slop songs that were listened to by bots to reap the streaming earning pool, and UMG also got streaming platforms to remove a viral “Drake” song that wasn’t by Drake and The Weeknd at all, but a song written by Ghostwriter, an anonymous artist that uses AI to produce music and appears publicly only when cloaked in white and dark glasses.
Now, the labels are starting to drop their fists and shake hands with AI music generators.
Warner Music Group announced last month it had settled a lawsuit against AI music generator Suno (a test of the service by plaintiffs in the suit found that Suno would churn out works similar to ABBA and Chuck Berry when prompted in their style) and entered into a partnership with the company. Robert Kyncl, CEO of WMG, called it “a victory for the creative community that benefits everyone.” The announcement came just weeks after UMG, the world’s largest record label, settled its copyright infringement lawsuit with AI music generator Udio, and said the two have partnered to create a new subscription service, slated to launch next year, run on gen AI and licensed music from the label’s artists.
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Here is the full article:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/the-music-industry-is-taking-the-human-out-of-hitmaking/
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Taylor Swift and the AI revolution have a lot more in common than you might think
Have you ever considered how similar Taylor Swift’s career is to the ongoing AI revolution?
No, seriously, there are several strong parallels.
For starters, Swift is the brightest spot in a struggling music industry, while AI carries the whole stock market.
Picture an unstoppable force that swallows up everything around it: people, businesses… even entire geographies.
The value creation is immense. There’s endless demand for spending, and entire new industries are constantly popping up in its wake.
I could very well be talking about artificial intelligence. But no. I’m instead referring to America’s pop princess, Taylor Swift, who just unleashed a new album upon the world on Friday.
Cash Cobain speaks on using AI to create entire songs: ‘That’s not fair’
How artificial intelligence is transforming music
This video examines how artificial intelligence is changing the music industry, exploring the technology behind AI-generated songs and the impact it could have on human creativity.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/how-artificial-intelligence-is-transforming-music