Spotify is facing a growing problem of AI-generated fake music being uploaded to legitimate artists’ pages, Elizabeth Lopatto reports for The Verge. The fraudulent uploads target musicians with single-word names like Health, Annie, and Standards, appearing on their verified pages through music distributors. Industry expert Andrew Batey estimates that this type of streaming fraud costs …
YouTube is launching a limited test of an AI-powered feature that allows creators to modify licensed songs for their Shorts videos, The Verge reports. The new capability, an extension of YouTube’s Dream Track feature, enables selected creators to generate 30-second soundtracks by altering elements like mood and genre of existing songs through text prompts. The …
Amphion is an open-source toolkit designed to support research and development in audio, music and speech generation. According to the project’s GitHub site, it offers unique visualizations of classic models and architectures to help junior researchers and engineers better understand them. The toolkit supports various individual generation tasks such as text-to-speech (TTS), singing voice synthesis …
Universal Music Group (UMG) has announced a collaboration with AI company Klay Vision to ethically train generative AI music models using UMG’s data, as reported by Emilia David. The partnership aims to create AI-generated music that respects copyright and includes protections for human creators’ likeness rights. Despite previously suing AI companies for using its data, …
The music AI Suno is now available for iPhones in the USA. It offers a variety of styles and genres, and can create full songs with lyrics and vocals, as well as instrumentals. The app will soon be available in other countries and for Android devices.
The major music labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Records have sued the AI companies Suno and Udio. They accuse them of having used copyrighted works on a massive scale for their AI music generators without permission. The lawsuits were filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in Boston and …
Stability AI releases “Stable Audio Open,” a new AI model for the free creation of sounds and pieces of music up to 47 seconds in length. However, due to the training material, it is limited to English descriptions and Western music styles.
As expected, Google used the keynote at its I/O developer conference to demonstrate its strength in AI. Among other things, the company presented new AI models for a wide range of tasks. Some will run directly on Android devices or can be found in the Chrome browser. Others use Google’s specialized servers. They create text, …
AIs can generate not only text, images, and video, but also sound and music. The progress in quality is amazing. Let’s look at three prominent examples: Udio Launched a week ago as part of a public beta, Udio has already caused quite a stir. The website contains numerous examples of songs created with this tool. …
Give it a listen. It’s a gimmick, sure, but at the same time it shows the current state of a music AI like Suno.ai very nicely.