The term “generative AI music” is a bit of a misnomer, since AI doesn’t actually generate any music. Instead, these programs “train” themselves by scraping information from all the actual, human-created music that exists out in the world and spitting out some approximation of whatever sounds the prompters want. Plenty of times, these AI programs will straight-up plagiarize existing songs, as those Czech Olympic ice dancers learned when their AI-generated skating soundtrack ripped off the New Radicals. But now, Sony has developed a new tool that will theoretically identify that copyrighted music that’s being ripped off in these AI-generated tracks.
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