{"id":21425,"date":"2023-08-22T04:14:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T04:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/nft\/3-ways-ai-is-transforming-music\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T04:14:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T04:14:12","slug":"3-ways-ai-is-transforming-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/nft\/3-ways-ai-is-transforming-music\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways AI is Transforming\u00a0Music"},"content":{"rendered":"
Each fall, I begin my course\u00a0on the intersection of music and artificial intelligence\u00a0by asking my students if they\u2019re concerned about AI\u2019s role in composing or producing music.<\/p>\n
So far, the question has always elicited a resounding \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Their fears can be summed up in a sentence: AI will create a world where music is plentiful, but musicians get cast aside.<\/p>\n
In the upcoming semester, I\u2019m anticipating a discussion about Paul McCartney, who in June 2023 announced that he and a team of audio engineers had used machine learning to uncover a \u201clost\u201d vocal track of John Lennon\u00a0by separating the instruments from a demo recording.<\/p>\n
But resurrecting the voices of\u00a0long-dead artists\u00a0is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what\u2019s possible \u2013 and what\u2019s already being done.<\/p>\n
In an interview, McCartney admitted that AI represents a \u201cscary\u201d but \u201cexciting\u201d future for music. To me, his mix of consternation and exhilaration is spot on.<\/p>\n
Here are three ways AI is changing the way music gets made \u2013 each of which could threaten human musicians in various ways:<\/p>\n
Many programs can already generate music with a simple prompt from the user, such as \u201cElectronic Dance with a Warehouse Groove.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fully generative apps\u00a0train AI models on extensive databases of existing music. This enables them to learn musical structures, harmonies, melodies, rhythms, dynamics, timbres and form, and generate new content that stylistically matches the material in the database.<\/p>\n
There are many examples of these kinds of apps. But the most successful ones, like\u00a0Boomy, allow nonmusicians to generate music and then post the AI-generated results on Spotify to earn money.\u00a0Spotify recently removed many of these Boomy-generated tracks, claiming that this would protect human artists\u2019 rights and royalties.<\/p>\n
The two companies quickly came to an agreement that allowed Boomy to re-upload the tracks. But the algorithms powering these apps still have a\u00a0troubling ability to infringe upon existing copyright, which might go unnoticed to most users. After all, basing new music on a data set of existing music is bound to cause noticeable similarities between the music in the data set and the generated content.<\/p>\n