Spotify Will Not Ban A.I. Made Music Lesson

Spotify will not ban AI made music.

​Artificial intelligence websites such as ChatGPT and Google's Bard are less than a year old, but they have been asking many questions. One question is whether music and art produced by AI is real music and art. Daniel Ek, the boss of the music streaming site Spotify, has answered this question. He said there are many uses of AI for making music that are OK. He told the BBC that Spotify has no plans to ban all music created by artificial intelligence. This includes the auto-tune software that helps singers correct their pitch and can add vocal effects to a singer's voice. Mr Ek said auto-tunes improves music. One use of AI Mr Ek did not like was software for mimicking (copying) the voice of an artist.

​Daniel Ek said using AI in music will be debated for "many, many years". He said the biggest problem is when AI copies the voice of other singers. Spotify deleted one song created by the AI platform Ghostwriter. The software copied the voices of the singers Drake, and The Weeknd. The song was even submitted for a Grammy music award, but it was rejected. Neither Drake nor The Weeknd knew about the song. Mr Ek highlighted how serious the problem of cloning singers' voices is. He said: "You can imagine someone uploading a song, claiming to be Madonna, even if they're not." He said it will be difficult to tell if a song is "sung" by a bot or a human. He added that the future of music production is going to be "tricky"

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ChatGPT has been making music for many years.

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The boss of Spotify said AI-generated music is the best

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Spotify's boss said auto-tune software helps to make music better.

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Spotify's boss disagrees with people copying singers' voices.

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Spotify's boss said people won't talk about AI and music for too long

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The singer Drake made a song with the AI platform Ghostwrite.

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Spotify's boss said it's OK to upload a song and pretend to be Madonna.

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Spotify's boss said the future of music will be tricky.

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