Music generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is as good as the real ones. In fact, listeners couldn’t tell if a song was made by a human or AI.
France-based streaming platform Deezer had polling firm Ipsos conduct a survey, asking 9,000 people in eight countries to identify which of an AI-generated and human-made music was not artificial, and the response of 97 percent was that they could not distinguish which was which, CBS News reports.
The survey also found that 80 percent of the respondents wanted fully AI-generated music clearly labeled for listeners, according to CBS News.
Deezer said that AI-generated music uploaded to its platform was attracting listeners as well. Some 40,000 AI-generated tracks are streamed on the platform daily.
Meanwhile, a music collector in Assam, India, has a more pressing concern than AI-created music.
Vishal Kalita has opened his house to the public so people can see his collection of obsolete music cassettes that he had bought from all over the country in the past 10 years, BBC reports.
Songs of the famous Assamese singer and composer Zubeen Garg, who died in September, have been drawing the most interest and Kalita wants to convert his songs to digital format so he can share them with more fans via online streaming platforms, the BBC reported.
The task, however, is challenging. For one, the old cassettes are fragile. There is also the risk of copyright violation, assuming Garg’s songs are uploaded online, as their ownership is unclear.
One of his most popular songs, Mayabini Ratir Bukut, was uploaded on a streaming platform by a user, but it was removed within a week due to licensing issues, according to the BBC.
Complicating the determination and search for the songs’ copyright owners is the sheer number of Garg’s songs.
Kalita has some 38,000 songs of the singer in his collection, including those translated to other dialects and languages.