“When AI Dances to a Billion Tuneless Tunes: The Comedy Behind a $10 Million Music Fraud Case”

“‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case”

“Machine learning is also being used to generate convincing human-like voices with real emotions in a song, a tactic that is often mentioned as the future of music.” This is a statement from an article posted on Wired. The very idea throws many in the tech industry into an eager frenzy picturing next-gen T-Pains belting out auto-tuned anthems on a virtual stage. But seriously, how should we humans feel when our carefully crafted emotional overtures become mechanized melodies?

Enter AI in the music industry. Not your average fanboy, but a tool designed to compose music even Bach would feel plagiarized. Here AI takes on the world of creativity, not with the intent of sharing in frustrated emotional anthems but rather to replicate, manufacture, and, dare we say, imitate human emotions in musical form. If only Tchaikovsky had known his mastery could one day be challenged by a string of code!

Granted, technology and music have been entwined since the dawn of ever-modernizing musical equipment. But now, we are witnessing AI bots stealing the show at the encore. These machine learning algorithms are trained to explore the deep sea of harmonies, rhythms, and lyrical sentiments to whip up that perfect track.

Much to the chagrin of tech skeptics, these bots can produce full songs. AI with its classical riffing, beat dropping, and lyrical writing skills, strikes not just a chord but a whole symphony of such. So potent is this AI-generated music, it can even mimic emotions. But whether or not these already “felt” emotions can equate to the raw human sentiment is a debate we ‘ll leave for another day.

Suffice it to say, music streaming platforms are now serving as public arenas for AI-composed songs. Enter OpenAI’s ‘MuseNet’ and ‘Jukin’, AI music generators promising to ‘reshape the musical landscape.’ Even though these sophisticated algorithms are spewing out notes and rhythms, they are, at the end of the day, still machines, devoid of intrinsic sentiment.

In conclusion, let’s just say the human aspect of music isn’t going to fizzle out anytime soon. And as far as these new-age virtual Beethovens are concerned, there’s still a long way before we get to the point where we don’t miss the human hand in the creation of music. After all, what’s a symphony without a little bit of heart?

Read the original article here: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bots-streaming-music/