🤔 Is AI killing the music star?

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“Music can change the world.” —Ludwig van Beethoven

And now AI is changing music.

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Is AI killing the music star?

The industry that was attacked the most during the past few tech transformations has been the music industry.

Like what is a musician? These days, you don't have to know how to sing. There's auto-tune. You You don't need to write music. There's ghostwriters. Streaming killed the CD market. And now, AI is remixing songs and producing new ones. Heck, the 3D animated pop stars are a total thing now.

Is music only the live experience now? How can the record become valuable again? I don't have the answers but I do have some cool tech that is ruining the music industry.

Hologram are a bit creepy and cool all at the same time. Like, say you can't sing. But you're a great song writer. There's no longer a need for you to write for a person to sing your song. Make a 3D pop star instead. You'd own all the rights.

But, does it take a bit of the soul from the performance?

Then, there's countries like Uganda. They are taking a critical look at the impact of AI on music copyright. If Tupac or Michael Jackson master's owners created new music from them using AI would you listen? Will their music ever just rest in peace now?

Read more on the legislative questions brewing in the EU and Uganda here.

An anonymous ghostwriter made a song called ''Heart on My Sleeve''. It was released on TikTok featuring the voices of Drake and the Weekend. And they weren't too happy about it.

Check it out.

P.S. Maybe Drake should've used AI in his recent diss tracks. It might've helped.

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Suno v3 makes music for you. Watch it create something.

Papers

• AI choreography with AIST++. Created by researchers at USC, UC Berkley, and Google. They have 5.2 hours of 3D dance moves which they used used to develop a novel Full Attention Cross model Transformer (FACT) network. It learns the correlation between music and motion to generate dance sequences. Read more here.

• A Survey of Tools We've been building AI music generation tools since at least 1994. The first neural network based model came out in 2016. Prompted based neural networks are the most popular methodologies today. Read a survey of AI generation tools here.

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