It seems that the “threat” of artificial intelligence is already moving some markets, which are fearful of the direction it is taking. We saw the clash of designers and painters facing Google’s tool. Now, the same clash has arrived in the music industry, which deals with the context of songs generated by AI (artificial intelligence).
Spotify recently removed thousands of AI-generated songs from its platform. The move was a result of pressure from major music industry companies over “artificial stream“.
As “artificial stream“, bots are used to increase the number of times a song is listened to. As a consequence, this increases the amount paid to its creators.
AI-generated music boom(y)
Boomy is the most widely used platform for creating AI-generated music, and it also helps its servers in the publishing process on streaming – in this case, Spotify. Within this process, the platform also earns part of the distribution fees.
According to information from Financial Timesabout 7% of the songs removed from Spotify were linked to this platform, Boomy. In total, more than 14 million songs have already been created by the platform, which is equivalent to 14% of the songs recorded in the world.
This shows how easy it is for these tools to create and publish your music on Spotify. This has alarmed companies and big names in music, such as Universal Music Group.
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Universal Music Group has been at the forefront of the push to get Spotify to remove AI-generated music. The group has also called on music platforms to streaming do not allow artificial intelligence technology to be trained and developed using copyrighted music.
A case involving singers Drake and The Weeknd shows the scope of AI’s abilities. Recently, the song “Heart on my Sleeve” was created by a software called SoftVC VITS without the artists having made a real musical partnership!
The content was only removed from the platforms streaming after having already reached millions of views and streams on TikTok, YouTube and Spotify. At that point, its creators had already been paid.
If you can’t stop them, join them…
However, not all artists view AI-generated music with a negative outlook. David Getta and Grimes, for example, have decided to apply the technology to their work and experience this new era that the music industry is entering.
In a statement on Twitter, Grimes authorized the use of her voice by AIs to create new songs. At one of her shows, Getta used an AI to create a song with the voice of rapper Eminem. It looks like we’re still going to have a lot of movement about AI in the industries!
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