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Apple Music to Label AI-Generated Songs

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Apple sent emails to its music industry partners about the upcoming launch of a Made With AI label that Apple will apply to AI-generated content (via The Hollywood Reporter).

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Content tagged as being "materially generated using AI" will have a label visible to all Apple Music users.

In March, Apple announced Transparency Tags, a system that lets music creators disclose when AI has been used. Transparency Tags are available for artwork, track, composition (lyrics), and music video. Apple said at the time that the tags were optional, and it would defer to content providers to determine what qualifies as AI-generated.

In today's email, Apple says AI Transparency Tags are required in "any instance where AI was used to create a material portion of the content, including tracks that are AI platform generated." Apple said AI-platform-generated content is defined as "anything that is primarily derived from a generative AI service."

Back in April, Apple Music VP Oliver Schusser told Billboard that more than a third of monthly uploads to Apple Music are 100% AI-generated, but AI music accounted for less than 0.5% of actual listening. Schusser said Apple has an in-house system for detecting AI, but is still relying on content makers to disclose AI use.

Apple's email did not give a specific timeline for the launch of the AI labels in Apple Music, but said they will show up "later this year."

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Starfia said:
Artists generally ought to be doing this themselves regardless. Happily, they do in my experience.
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I think it's more about music platforms / labels generating AI tracks wholesale than artists using AI as a tool, to be honest.

It reminds me of the accusations paid against Spotify of Spotify generating tracks by non-existent artists - if the artists don't exist, they don't need to be paid, but users being told that these were actual artists.

If people are happy to listen to completely AI generated music, fair enough, but it should be made clear that this it what it is.
 
LegendaryTechnician said:
How about just not allowing AI-generated songs period?
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Exactly my feeling.
I feel the same way about the unsavory categories of Apps they allow in the walled garden.

In both situations, high & mighty Apple simply likes to cash in.
It's depressing to me.

The AI Music one is particularly disheartening, at least in relation to Apple, as the company only even stayed afloat at one time due to creatives and their passion for the company and the products.
 
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LegendaryTechnician said:
How about just not allowing AI-generated songs period?
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That is an extremist anti-technology position that will hurt people and do nothing. It’s always the usual suspects who take extreme positions and if you look at their posting history it is full of hatred, conspiracy theories and even pro piracy which has hurt artists more than anything.

Synthetic samples and computer generated sounds have existed in music for 60 years. You are basically advocating for a ban on electronic genres just because some anti-AI mania on the internet told you that it is cool to hate.

AI music isn’t just “Hi bot generate me a song”. It can be a thousand things from generating a beat or an effect or a voice filter. All of these have been used for decades using more primitive forms of AI and computer generation.
 
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The problem is that a lot of people use names of actual artists for their AI slop and Apple Music is too stupid to know it’s not the same artist. Too many times a see a new song by an artist but then when listen it’s Suno AI.
 
expensiveram said:
That is an extremist anti-technology position that will hurt people and do nothing. It’s always the usual suspects who take extreme positions and if you look at their posting history it is full of hatred, conspiracy theories and even pro piracy which has hurt artists more than anything.

Synthetic samples and computer generated sounds have existed in music for 60 years. You are basically advocating for a ban on electronic genres just because some anti-AI mania on the internet told you that it is cool to hate.

AI music isn’t just “Hi bot generate me a song”. It can be a thousand things from generating a beat or an effect or a voice filter. All of these have been used for decades using more primitive forms of AI and computer generation.
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“You’re banning AI slop” now means “you’re banning electronic genres”

Very funny.

Ban AI garbage into oblivion.
 
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turbineseaplane said:
People should be able to toggle off all traces of AI generated music on Apple Music if they want to.

It's a paid service!
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Excellent point. Labeling AI slop "music" is a good start, but it doesn't go far enough. Apple should indeed add a switch button in the settings or somewhere else to toggle off AI slop "music." That is especially true since it is, as you pointed out, a paid service.
 
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expensiveram said:
That is an extremist anti-technology position that will hurt people and do nothing. It’s always the usual suspects who take extreme positions and if you look at their posting history it is full of hatred, conspiracy theories and even pro piracy which has hurt artists more than anything.

Synthetic samples and computer generated sounds have existed in music for 60 years. You are basically advocating for a ban on electronic genres just because some anti-AI mania on the internet told you that it is cool to hate.

AI music isn’t just “Hi bot generate me a song”. It can be a thousand things from generating a beat or an effect or a voice filter. All of these have been used for decades using more primitive forms of AI and computer generation.
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You do realize you're in the sharp minority on all of those points, right?

"Extremist anti-technology"? Sounds like something straight out of the Tech Bro Playbook. Nothing says you're disconnected from the real world and what people really want faster than being in favor of all things AI, to the detriment of the environment, job market, and the economy.
 
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smkbrvo said:
This is great. It will make it easy to see which "artists" to block.
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Some AI music and video sounds and or looks amazing and is worthy of attention, but IMO it is essential that the listener/viewer knows what they are listening to or watching and how it was created.
 
expensiveram said:
Synthetic samples and computer generated sounds have existed in music for 60 years. You are basically advocating for a ban on electronic genres just because some anti-AI mania on the internet told you that it is cool to hate.

AI music isn’t just “Hi bot generate me a song”. It can be a thousand things from generating a beat or an effect or a voice filter. All of these have been used for decades using more primitive forms of AI and computer generation.
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The Ensoniq chip in the Apple 2 GS comes immediately to mind. Then there were all those mod files, MIDI, and eventually Garage Band.

So where does the line get drawn?
 
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