Making Music With AI; Generate Custom AI Artwork For Your Playlists on Spotify
#17 | Your Weekly Dose of AI Music News
🤖 Extr(AI)mportant
Making Music With AI: Is there a chance to creatively and ethically leverage the power of this technology to further our work? Here's a framework to make it happen. Link
Nile Rodgers wants musicians to embrace new AI technology: “People complaining sounds like the noise we’ve been hearing all our lives” Link
AI-generated music is an easy villain for some people. Something that threatens the livelihoods of human musicians, created by models likely trained on human-made, copyrighted music without permission. Link
Digital platforms, particularly YouTube and TikTok, are transforming the music industry, democratizing music discovery and nurturing an entrepreneurial shift. Here's how the influence of data, podcasts and upcoming tech trends are shaping the industry's future. Link
Janelle Monáe: “We’re going to live in a world where you can’t differentiate The Beatles from the AI Beatles” Link
⚙️ Cool Tools
You can now generate custom AI artwork for your playlists on Spotify Link
A group called the Big Bang Collective sets up physics discovery stations at rather unexpected venues: music festivals. Link
Plexamp was already an excellent app for music aficionados, but now it’s even better with generative AI playlists. Link
© Copyright/wrong
If you’re a media company tracking entertainment rights to hundreds, thousands, or perhaps millions of titles, the cybersecurity of your rights management application should probably be at the top of your priorities—if it isn’t already. Link
🎼 (A)Innovation
The Drake and Weeknd song that went viral in April is just the beginning. In a time when ChatGPT is going mainstream and programs are allowing musicians to create once-unimaginable compositions, what’s the value of creativity? Link
As discourse surrounding AI continues to ramp up, Mark Sutherland speaks to the experts to find out what the industry is doing to protect human artistry. Link
Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess has expressed his feelings on AI (artificial intelligence) and explained what actually makes him "very excited" about the technology and its potential application in music and visual arts. Link
Draw your attention to how artificial intelligence (AI) has learned to create music and is already doing it as well as artists. Link
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