Ask ChatGPT to write you a Beyoncé song and it will churn out something cringey – but completely convincing. Lydia Spencer-Elliott speaks to experts about the future of AI in music and the threats and opportunities it poses for songwriters

“AI goes around the internet and scrapes all of the lyrics but never provides any credits,” says Bryan-Kinns. “If an AI makes a song, gets famous, went to No 1, who would get money from them? Certainly not the people in the huge dataset of millions of songs. …

Last summer, the [UK] government set out proposals to amend copyright laws that would allow AI creators to exploit musicians’ back catalogues without permission or compensation.

  • Yuu Yin@group.ltEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Ive made a good side career selling lp vinyl, given how poor the contemporary state of the music industry is. The worse the state of the economy the more these old artifacts become assets of economic significant.

    Oh I’ve seen this and I’m glad this is a thing; not exactly reselling old vinyls, but the fact underground artists are able to release new/old stuff in vinyl format with wonderfully-production made with the heart instead of solely profit in mind.

    I would hate to be a young performer.

    I have come to known a very good young performer, but that workpath was just impossible. As I see it, doing music or art at this point is only good for individual/collective human expression; totally unfeasible doing a career over it as it is meaningless at this point.