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AI music tools are making song creation faster and cheaper for Indian creators. Platforms like Suno, Udio, ElevenLabs Music, Beatoven.ai, Google Gemini with Lyria 3 and Weights.gg offer features ranging from full song generation and voice cloning to background scores and AI covers, catering to musicians, YouTubers and indie creators.
An Australian producer has gone from little-known artist to viral sensation in a matter of months, with his hit song catapulting on to global charts and receiving thousands of radio spins. There’s just one problem: music experts and other musicians are questioning whether he produced it. They claim Josh Fawaz’s most popular song, a cover of Madonna’s Like a Prayer which reached the No 1 spot on the National Radio Airplay chart, could have been made using AI. While producers often use software including Ableton L…
E]verybody who creates for a living should be in code red." 1 In early April 2023, TikTok user Ghostwriter977 posted a piece titled "Heart on My Sleeve" (stylized in lowercase) that seemed to be sung by Drake and The Weeknd. 2 However, as the song gained massive popularity, Drake and The Weeknd's recording label released a chilling statement: the voices in the song, which had convinced millions of listeners, were, in fact, not Drake or The Weeknd, but an artificially generated imitation made from recordings of D…
Abstract As AI voice synthesis enables increasingly sophisticated vocal deepfakes and non-consensual voice cloning, the governance, licensing and access of singing datasets has become an urgent concern for data-contributors, who face significant harms from downstream and non-consensual usage of their singing data. Singing datasets are foundational to the development of high fidelity voice AI synthesis, yet current data collection practices pose challenges: data-contributors have an event-centric contribution to…
Jean-Michel Jarre has attacked the conservatism of the music and film industries over AI and urged them to embrace the technology instead of being fearful and “very anti-AI”. Jarre, one of the pioneers of electronic music in the 1970s, said while the existing creative industries were “freaking out” over the technology, artists would use AI “to create the cinema of tomorrow, the hip-hop of tomorrow, the techno of tomorrow, the rock’n’roll of tomorrow”. AI’s power to generate images and sounds would not kill talent,
AI promises to have far-reaching effects in music-making. While some welcome it as a compositional tool, many have deep concerns. Here are some of your responses
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