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The RegisterThis is basically a riff on ‘You wouldn’t steal a car’ and means only the human league can have a hit
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has decided it won’t list AI-generated music on its charts of best-selling music. The decision comes into effect this week and follows two interesting musical moments of note. One came when an AI-assisted cover version of Madonna’s Like a Prayer hit the top ten in Australia, stirring debate about whether using AI to make music is an off-key creative decision. The other was the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) pitching a set of principles “governing the eligibility of recordings developed with generative
artificial intelligenceservices for inclusion in official music charts.” The IFPI distilled its principles into the following chord of criteria that must be met for a tune to be included in the charts: Anygenerative AIservices used to develop the recording are properly authorised and lawful; They are substantially human made; They do not raise manipulation concerns; They comply with applicable laws, including those relating to copyright, related rights, and personality rights; The making available of the recordings does not breach the terms of the generative AI service used; The use of generative AI services to develop the recording is appropriately signaled to consumers on downstream services (e.g., digital streaming platforms), in accordance with any applicable legislation and/or industry labelling standards. The IFPI’s real beef with AI seems not to be the technology, but AI services that produce music without licensing it. “Tracks created using generative AI systems have been appearing on streaming services, however many of these have been developed with tools that have been trained on artists’ music without authorization,” the IFPI’s announcement states. “To tackle this, record companies are driving the development and licensing of AI music services that respect the rights of music creators.” A veritable choir of record companies – among them Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group – had a hand in developing the principles. And now those companies and chart-compilers won’t publish counts of sales and streams by artists who create their works using AI services that don’t license music. The IFPI announced its principles in late July. On Tuesday, ARIA became the first organization to adopt them. CEO Annabelle Herd offered a canned quote that rammed home the licensing message. “Artists already use AI tools in their work, the charts can and should evolve to keep room for that, but music generated wholesale by services built on artists’ recordings is a different matter,” she said. ®Get AI news in your inbox
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Artificial Intelligence
The science of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence — reasoning, learning, perception, language understanding, and decision-making.
Generative AI
AI systems that create new content — text, images, audio, video, or code — rather than just analyzing or classifying existing data.