AI-generated music is going viral. Should the music industry worry?

With more than 1 million listeners in Spotify, Psychedelic Rock group Velvet Sundown scratched thousands of dollars and the music industry asks him difficult questions 一 and not about whether the 70s are back.

Recently, it has been confirmed that the “group” is primarily the work of productive artificial intelligence.

Velvet Sundown’s biography in Spotify explains that it is now a synthetic music project directed by the human creative aspect and composed, expressed and visualized with the support of artificial intelligence “.

“This is not a trick – this is a mirror. A artistic provocation designed to challenge the future of writing, identity and music in the age of artificial intelligence.”

However, in his speeches with CNBC’s various music professionals, descriptions such as “Soulless”, “suffocating” and “creepy” emerged while struggling with the rape of industry AI.

Although AI Tools has long been integrated into music software, such as logic, platforms, such as Suno and Udio, have made it easier to produce all songs than a few demands and inputs than ever.

As a result, “Velvet Sundown” is far from the artist produced by the only AI that emerged online. There is evidence Other ups, such as the “Dark Country” musician, who has more than 600,000 listeners per month in Spotify, are also a product of sounds and instruments produced by AI.

By the way, a AI detection tool for music In January, in April 18% of all parts Now it is fully produced by AI to be loaded on the platform.

AI music has quality and originality frequently criticizedHowever, experts say that as the productive AI becomes more sophisticated, it is increasingly difficult for the average listener to distinguish between human and machinery.

“[The Velvet Sundown]Jason Palamara, an assistant professor at the Herron Art and Design School, said, “much better music than we’ve heard from AI in the past,” he said.

“The first versions can be used to make permanent, recurrent hooks … However, we have come to the point where AI reveals the songs, choirs and bridges and structurally logical songs.” He said.

He said that the velvet sunset is probably the “tip of the iceberg”. The current “gold standard” of the Suno and Udio – Genai platforms is very little or without any obstacle at the entrance and allows anyone to form hundreds of AI runways in a sitting.

Both AI platforms offer free access and premium subscriptions with approximately $ 30 or less per month.

However, creating an AI song can be made free of charge, while this does not mean that it cannot generate income. According to the estimates of Chartmaster’s Flow Copyright Calculator, the velvet sunset has won about $ 34,235 for a 30 -day period on all sound flow platforms.

Therefore, it is easy to see why AI content crews may want to irrigate flow platforms with music as much as possible, hoping to be viral.

According to Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, Management and Music Industry Course Leader Keith Mullin, the increasing prevalence of AI music has created an excitement in the music industry.

Mullin, Liverpool Rock group Farm’s guitarist, said, “This is especially about copyright and digital service providers such as Spotify,” he said.

Large record companies like Sony Music, Universal Music Groupand Warner Records filed a lawsuit against Suno and Udio on charges of violating mass royalties. Meanwhile, Thousands of musicians and advertising elements He called for a ban on using human art to educate artificial intelligence without permission.

Nevertheless, Mullin said that productive artificial intelligence on music will remain here. Orum I don’t think we can reject the clock, dedi he said, the music and business models have changed constantly.

Indeed, the music business shook the sector and pushed major adaptations such as Napster’s promotion in 1999 and the proliferation of music flow platforms in the 2000s.

Nevertheless, the idea of competing with AI groups causes concern for musicians like Tilly Louise, a UK -based alternative pop artist Tilly Louise, who says that it is already difficult for small artists to gain from online music.

Despite the accumulation of millions of streams in Spotify, 25 -year -old Louise said he didn’t make almost enough money to live on the flow platforms and that he is currently working in a full -time job.

“Then it is very courageous for a group that does not really exist to obtain all these social media trains.”

Music professors, young artists to prepare for the changing music environment, instead of replacing technology to the students to use creative processes and music productions to teach how to teach how to use the lesson plans, he said.

Some built -in manufacturers also focused on tendency. Last month, Grammy award -winning artist and producer Timbaland launched an AI -oriented entertainment attempt called Stage Zero, a pop star created by AI.

“Other producers will start doing this … And the music industry we can’t imagine yet will create a completely different model.” He said. However, he added that he thinks that the tendency would make it even more difficult to make money as an online artist.

The trend is expected to continue not only for the impact of artists, but also for what it can mean for music consumers.

“[M]USIC fans should worry, because the proliferation of AI music and content block our social media publications and algorithms and make it difficult for us to connect to each other.

“The art of AI does not offer anything that people themselves cannot do better, dedi he said, and added that” greedy capitalists “are a way to cut true artists.

In the case of AI’s training, in addition to calling better copyright protection for artists, music groups Produced by AI Music is tagged in this way. Spotify did not respond to an investigation into productive AI detection and labeling policies from CNBC.

In a statement to CNBC, Tino Gagliardi, President of the United States and Canadian American Musicians Federation, called on creators, deputies and music fans in the technology industry to stand together to support human creativity and writing.

“Consent, credit and compensation are prerequisite in the development of AI. Transparency, including flow and other markets, is the basis for protecting musicians’ livelihoods. This is a shortest theft.”