Music generated by artificial intelligence, which can take only two minutes to produce, has sparked ethical concerns in the industry.

The release of Open AI's ChatGPT has accelerated the development of artificial intelligence and warnings about its impact on society.

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A band with over 1.5 million followers was revealed to be entirely AI-generated, prompting widespread discussion about the implications for the music industry. The band, initially presented as a human act, used AI tools to create music and lyrics in seconds, challenging traditional notions of artistry and creativity.

Industry experts and songwriters expressed concern over the authenticity of AI-generated music and the potential impact on human creators. The rapid pace of technological development has outstripped legislative efforts to regulate AI, leaving questions about ethics, copyright, and the future role of humans in music creation unresolved.

AI-generated music sparks industry concern

Dust on the wind. The band you're listening to. Coats on the ground. Is very popular. Smoke in the sky. This is their photo on all their socials. It is a true overnight success story. Are you sure we're not real? Now here we are with machines copying people's voices. Rick Beato is sure. And now they've admitted that it's AI. They changed their bio on Spotify. But still, they have 1.5 million followers. Why are they a verified artist when they're not even human? That's one of those things. He's the popular YouTuber who's testified before Congress about the impact of AI and has gained millions of followers himself by talking to Sting and others, breaking down songs. We're sitting in this beautiful studio here, but everything in this studio can be emulated in how many seconds? It's probably about two and a half minutes. From the beginning to the end. I'm pretty sure it was used, this program called Suno. Okay, that's something we have to see. Here's my prompt. Create a square avatar of a fictitious female alternative slash indie singer and a name for her. Wow, Sadie Winters. Sadie Winters, okay. The song is about walking away from someone who never really saw her worth. She's just gonna create the song lyrics. Wait, how many seconds was that? That was like about four seconds, oh my God. Did you even read any of these or you don't care? I don't care. Put my lyrics in. The lyrics that happened in four seconds. Yes, and then hit create. Let's listen. This is the world premiere. ♪ I was paper, you were scissors ♪ ♪ Cut me out ♪ She's a good singer. Good singer. ♪ I'm still there, I'm static ♪ ♪ You were funny, breaking me ♪ Ooh, that's nice. Pretty good. Where are we, Rick? Where have we found ourselves? I mean, it's pretty amazing, actually. I hate to say it. The next logical step was taking our fake artist to BMI in Nashville. What does a human songwriter think of her? ♪ Did you grow up on a tractor? ♪ ♪ Did your daddy let you drive? ♪ This song went to number one on the country charts, top 40 on the Hot 100 for Thomas Rhett. ♪ Are your friends all in low places? ♪ ♪ Me, the neon moon ♪ Co-written by Grammy nominee Parker Welling. ♪ Yeah, what's your country song? ♪ You know what I love about that, Parker? In your writing, it references other songs. Yeah, that's like, we kind of debated about it when we were writing it. We're like, should we do that? Should we not? Because we had like the concept already. What you're doing is taking what's in your brain, rearranging it, Tetrising it. Yeah. Is that what a songwriter does? So it's, you write what you know. And country music is all I've listened to my whole life. You know, some days it takes 45 minutes. Some days it takes five hours. But your songwriting would never take two minutes or less. Oh, never. Absolutely never. So this song, Sadie Winters. I'm so nervous. ♪ I used to fold myself into your corners ♪ ♪ Made myself small enough to fit ♪ Wow. That's like the paper linger rhyme is like an advanced rhyme. That like was a little bit jarring that a person didn't do that. How does she, this robot, have human experiences? This is the tricky thing about AI is that they are training AI on what people like me have released into the world. The pace that technology moves and the pace that culture moves is so much faster than the way that legislation moves. American artificial intelligence and it will make America richer, stronger, greater, freer, and more powerful. Okay. That's President Trump just three weeks ago signing the White House AI Action Plan. Earlier this year, Mr. Trump signed a separate executive order removing AI guardrails set by the Biden administration. Our organization has testified in front of Congress. What we talk about is like just having some form of guardrails around it to protect creators. It is hard to unpack all of this, but just because it's hard doesn't mean that we shouldn't do it. There's something that's like living in a song and for something that's non-living to be able to learn how to do that and it be pretty convincing is kind of alarming. For someone who's a music purist, it feels not right to me. It feels icky to me. There's this like unifying piece of art that exists and that's a really dangerous and I don't know if it's even an ethical way to approach art to have something non-human try to connect with humans in that way. No need for humans anymore. But this is the most human thing there is. Yeah. We sent an album out in the Voyager spacecraft. Hello from the children of planet Earth. And we put music on there to communicate this is who we are. Yeah. Well, this is who we are now.

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