AI Generated Music

The song “Walk my Walk” by the AI musician Breaking Rust became the first AI generated song to top a Billboard chart. This revolutionary accomplishment signals the rapidly growing potential of AI in the music industry but concerns many artists, many of whom spent years mastering their craft. An average person with no musical talent can now create a song indistinguishable from an authentic song in minutes. 

Check out this video to see the similarity between AI generated and real songs. 

Considering all that is happening, many questions arise. Is it fair for AIs to replace humans, and should it concern us that there is a diminishing value for authentic creativity?  

To generate such convincing songs, AI must take in large quantities of data. From this, it can replicate vocals, instrumentals, and more. What does this data consist of you might ask: songs by human musical artists. Should an AI be able to use an artist’s song for its own purposes without consent or compensation?  

Many are too keen to believe that what sounds real is real. When this occurs, listeners can’t tell what is human-made or not. For this reason, AI generated music could undermine the trust in the relationship between creators and listeners.  

Additionally, the rise in AI generated music could contribute to a cultural shift of diminishing creativity. AI aims to replicate the past successes of music, not to expand creativity by innovating.  

People value the emotional connection of human music. It acts as a voice of the shared human experience. AI music could never reproduce this; consequently, most will favor human music.