YouTube released new policy updates on Tuesday to combat AI-generated content that resembles the voice and style of music artists.
As AI-generated songs run rampant across the internet, YouTube looks to get in front of it by legally licensing out artist voices.
As the Writers Guild of America comes to an agreement with movie and television studios over the use of AI in Hollywood, it would appear that the music industry is in for a reckoning too. CEO of Warner Music Group Robert Kyncl thinks AI is a really good thing for the music industry, actually.
The saga of the AI-generated song that sounds like The Weeknd and Drake continues. After the head honcho behind the Grammys indicated that “Heart on My Sleeve” would be eligible for the award, it appears that the track is dead in the water.
As the tidal wave of hare-brained AI innovation continues to slam into our society, music is proving to be a battleground.
YouTube is embracing the future of artificial intelligence in the music industry by creating a YouTube Music AI Incubator to “protect” artists and their work, the company said in a press release on Monday.
Universal Music Group and Google are in discussions to license artists’ voices and melodies for AI-generated content.