Indirect enhancements (personalized playlists, music recommendations, etc.) have given way to direct creation tools. Today’s AI is more evolved and exponentially more impactful. Hello, World, the first AI composed pop album, was released in 2018. David Bowie experimented with a digital lyric randomizer in the 90s. Experimental trombonist and composer George Lewis improvised a live quartet with three Apple II computers in 1984.

Alan Turing, the godfather of computer science, created a simple melody-making machine in 1951. Copyright Office has issued instructive decisions and made AI-related copyright issues a 2023 priority.ĪI in music is not new. While courts have yet to weigh in, the U.S. What is not up for debate is that AI raises many legal issues. Whether AI will kill the humanity of music remains debatable. The current existential threat is artificial intelligence (AI), a software leviathan with a voracious appetite for copyrighted works, and a prolific capacity for human-free creative processes. The cassette tape, MIDI digital synthesizers, Napster, Auto-Tune and streaming were all received with apocalyptic hysteria. Music “as we know it” has been prematurely pronounced dead several times over.

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