“A fully AI-generated singer-songwriter, Anna Indiana, released her first song last week to widespread derision online. In a post to X/Twitter, Indiana said that every aspect of her debut single, Betrayed By This Town ‘from the key, tempo, chord progression, melody notes, rhythm, lyrics, and my image and singing, is auto-generated using AI.’ Others picked up on the song being […]
“The artist and musician uses machine learning to make strange, playful work. She also advocates for artists’ autonomy in a world shaped by A.I. Holly+ represents the future that Herndon and Dryhurst anticipate for music, art, and literature: a world of “infinite media,” in which anyone can adjust, adapt, or iterate on the work, talents, and traits of others. The […]
“Universal Music Group, the world’s largest record company, wants the streaming platforms to ban cloneworks as well as the data scrapers they use for training. UMG says it has “a moral and commercial responsibility to our artists to work to prevent the unauthorised use of their music”, which on principle is fair enough. But when what’s at stake is a […]
“YouTube announced new AI music experiments it has been developing with Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence lab. The most interesting (and possibly most disorienting) of YouTube’s AI tests is Dream Track in YouTube Shorts. Here’s how it works: A user types an idea into the creation prompt and selects a participating artist, then voilà — it produces an original song snippet […]
“ I think in the near future, we’re going to have infrastructure that allows artists to not only license their voice, but do so with permissions. Like, say I’m artist X. I want to license my voice out, but I want to take 50% of the revenue that’s generated. Plus users can’t use my voice for hate speech or politics. […]