The Rise of The AI Musicians

What the!? Autonomous AI bots are analyzing existing music and creating new compositions, even with voices similar to the most popular artists of today, living or dead. As of this moment in time, Ubio and Suno are raising concerns about the future of music and its human creators.

Musicians are raising their concerns, with shock and alarm, as to what has taken place in such a relatively short time, with the release of these and other AI music generators coming on the horizon.

Jen Jacobsen, director of the Artist Rights Alliance, has already voiced an opinion on the subject echoing the concerns of major artists. 

At the forefront are Udio and Suno. Udio was developed by former Google employees from DeepMind’s AI-research side of things and backed by some of the tech industry’s heavy’s.

Will.i.am (and earlier investor in Ubio) is a big believer in using AI to conjure up music from the imagination. So, some artists are looking at this AI thingy from a different perspective.

With Suno, the creators have stated that their AI-generator is geared towards the average consumer while Ubio is staged to work mainly with musicians. 

The creators of these platforms state that AI can enhance the creative process and create new jumping-off points for artists to build upon.

There is a lot of speculation and fear swirling in the new world of AI and the music industry.

One bone of contention is that famous artists are being mimicked blurring the lines for authenticity and its moral implications, hence the involvement of the Artist Rights Alliance.

The challenges to the rise of these new AI-generating platforms is one of ethical and legal concerns. Especially, when it comes to ownership, licensing, and copyright infringements, for one, the problem, is the fact that AI-generated music has no specific artist branding it, making it even trickery for agencies to enforce copyright laws. How about sync license, master license, public performance license, and mechanical license, just to name a few, will they most likely be affected or altered by the rise of AI?

How about the fight for the human spirit in creating music and the market for human creators?

As the saying goes, “Keep your eye on the ball”, this one is moving dangerously fast and curving.

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