this week that promises to “protect artists.” The new platform, which was created in partnership with music industry giant Universal Music Group , appears to be designed to protect well-known musical artists from having their content used in ways they don’t legally approve of.
Licensing has been a big issue in the emergent trend of AI music, and this new partnership appears to be a stopgap in that ongoing legal debate.In a broader sense, I’d just like to vaunt the argument that the term “AI-generated music” is something of a misnomer. Look, no offense, but if you think you’re making “music” by clicking a button and having an algorithm repackage sounds from actual music to create new synthetic auditory content that you put no actual effort into...you’re an idiot.