Universal Music Group has been asking music streaming services like Spotify to stop🤚 developers from scraping its material to train Al🤖 bots to make new songs🎵. The label, which controls about a third of the recorded music industry🎬, has also been issuing substantial numbers of takedown requests about Al uploads appearing online.

It is the latest move in the music industry's growing battle to prevent Als from using its songs without licensing them📀. Behind these efforts to enforce copyright, the big worry is about how governments will balance the rights of Als against human creativity.

On a "royalty-free music generator" like Mubert, it's already possible to type in a prompt, and the program will use Al to search🔎 a catalog of music for patterns📃. Tell it to play a "fast voodoo rhythm in the style of a nursery rhyme with some pretty electronics", and it will copy parts of songs💿 that correspond and generate music to match. You can also generate music that sounds like a particular artist, and whatever tracks you create are downloadable.😮

This all boils down to whether we still believe human creativity deserves greater protection than machine creativity.

Read the music industry's Battle with AI song generators

If AI starts producing music would music still have value?😕

Musicians who make good music will survive AI. Down side is the loss of creativity and a lot of junk music around

It has started already and the music is dope ehhhhhhh...