Michael TharringtonAbout half a year ago I started up a discussion called How far off is AI created music?
Well, apparently it wasn't far off at all... arguably it was already happening, but now it's newsworthy.
Just look at the viral release of "Heart on My Sleeve", a track dropped by the anonymous ghostwriter977 that uses AI-generated vocals to mimic Drake and The Weekend, and the subsequent action by Drake and The Weekend's record label UMG to order the song taken down from platforms like TikTok, Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, and others. There's a good breakdown of the situation in @scofieldidehen's recent post AI in Music: The Future of Music.
So, I'm curious what y'all think about all this... do you see AI-generated music that mimics an artist's voice, writing style, and instrumentation as morally wrong? Or, on the other hand, do you know of anybody out there who is using AI to generate original music rather than trying to closely mimic existing music? What other thoughts do you have on all this?
