For Music and AI, All Roads Lead to Licensing; will.i.am Talks AI, Future of Music

#148 | Your Weekly Dose of AI Music News

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For Music and AI, All Roads Lead to Licensing

The music business is built on an intellectual property foundation, much like many technology and gaming companies. However, the biggest difference between music and these other industries is that music can easily be integrated into third-party websites and apps and experiences, and that music brings a crowd and helps foster platform adoption.

Talking through AI and the future of music with will.i.am

Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am is sanguine about the future of music and AI, comparing it to a grocery store where there is an organic section (human-created tunes) and other products (technology-driven songs).

How to get the best results from Spotify's AI playlist builder

With Spotify’s AI-powered playlist creator, it can help to get specific, but not too specific.

The Music Creator Economy: Reshaping Opportunities for Artists

Explore how the evolving landscape of the music creator economy is reshaping opportunities for artists and industry professionals alike. 

ByteDance Expands into Hardware with Launch of AI Earbuds

The earbuds are designed to connect with the company’s generative AI assistant, Doubao, which can be activated by voice command. Doubao is currently the most widely used generative AI app in China, with 47 million monthly active users as of September, since ByteDance has intensified its focus on generative AI following OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT in late 2022.

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⚙️ Cool Tools

• Adobe releases more AI magic for Creative Cloud users at Max 2024

• Tad AI Unveils An Innovative AI Music Generator Set to Revolutionize the Music Industry

• Delphos debuts a musical AI for ‘collaborating with yourself’

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• Tencent Music is ‘strategically deploying advanced AI tools’ to crack down on infringement amid the rise of AI-generated content

• Amuse adds Stream Check to help artists detect fraudulent streams

• The MLC Crosses $2.5 Billion in Cumulative Royalty Payouts

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🎼 Innovation

• Spotify is full of AI music, and it's ruining the platform

• Striking the Right Chord: How Musical AI is Keeping Artists at the Heart of Generative AI

• Adobe aims to teach AI, online content skills to 30 million

• Indian filmmaker abandons human musicians for AI-generated music

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