Steve Marriott's Children Fight to Stop AI-Generated Songs; On the Beauty and Dilemma of the New AI Randy Travis Song
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Steve Marriott's Children Fight to Stop AI-Generated Songs
The AI-generated recordings, which are said to be incomplete, were authorized by Marriott’s third wife, Toni Marriott, whom he married less than two years before his death.
Marriott’s key surviving former bandmates — the Small Faces’ Kenney Jones and Humble Pie’s Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley — have signed on to a statement supporting Marriott’s daughter Mollie and her three siblings’ opposition to their release, along with Plant, Gilmour, Paul Weller, Paul Rodgers, Bryan Adams, Glenn Hughes, Gary Kemp and others.
On The Beauty and Dilemma of the New A.I. Randy Travis Song
The trauma of losing the voice of Randy Travis in 2013 after his near-fatal stroke is something the country music community is still attempting to recover from, tempered somewhat by the grace that we still have Randy with us to fete and celebrate in the country music community that he’s been so integral to.
ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model
Voice AI startup ElevenLabs is offering an early look at a new model that turns a prompt into song lyrics. To raise awareness, it’s following a similar playbook Sam Altman used when OpenAI introduced Sora, its video-generating AI, soliciting ideas on social media and turning them into lyrics.
Why AI Tools are Essential for Music Businesses
Technology has always been at the forefront of the music industry, but its influence has become stronger in recent years. You’re probably no stranger to the emergence of AI, right? Chat GPT4 certainly caught the world’s attention.
Will.i.am Funds AI Powered Music App That Generates Songs From Texts
Former Google DeepMind researchers have launched a generative AI-powered music creation app that allows users to create songs from text prompts.
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