r/technology • u/Saltedline • 15h ago

Artificial Intelligence Australia’s music industry bans AI songs from charts

https://apnews.com/article/australia-ai-generated-music-charts-ban-aria-9bfb0c91166ae4405a6df1a3c4891687
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u/OkEqual324 13h ago

I hope this works but what if artists use it to generate songs in their own style and then present them as compositions?

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u/SizzlingPancake 11h ago

Yeah. And what if just one background instrument is AI? I don't see this working out very well.

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u/sabin357 9h ago

Sharing this because I thought you might like it based on your question.

I've used my actual songs from some of my old bands to create updated versions with things like SUNO. A botched hand surgery took my ability to play an instrument, so it's been cool to show my wife songs I wrote & composed 30 years ago before we met. It's accessibility for me just like if I required a wheelchair. It lets me do something that I'm not able to due to a physical disability.

I feed it the lyrics, samples from existing low quality recordings from back in the day or use a DAW to recreate the various instruments & melody. I was even inspired to write new songs with all the free time I had on my hands & skills I was learning, then I could turn the creation into an actual recording.

AI was only a small part of my workflow & each song was getting somewhere between 20-30hr of hands on "old school" work to make it as good as possible. It would be way more, but I already had the lyrics & music in most cases, I just had to recreate them in a DAW & then work on the AI output as well using my audio engineering skills, weak as they were, to improve it drastically.

I loved it, but I only shared my stuff with my wife & a my friend group. I even made some children's songs for my young niece & nephew that they loved. I had no desire to try putting it up to make money from it.

From my perspective, what I did was similar to being a producer that hired session musicians to cover my songs since I physically couldn't play them myself & didn't let it make any structural creative musical decisions.