Composers and musicians need to come to terms with the fact that AI-generated music exists, and so does YouTube. With the rise of AI “music”, the video-sharing platform has its hands full with how it’s going to handle the rising issues.
One main issue that YouTube has to deal with is the copyright aspect of AI-generated music. People are able to create content mostly or wholly using AI, and that sits in a huge gray area as the government is still trying to regulate AI music. This involves using AI-generated voices emulating popular artists. YouTube has a lot on its hands figuring out how to best handle this situation.
YouTube is partnering with music labels to address the issue with AI-generated music
In order to help musicians, composers, and other creators on the platform, YouTube is partnering with several people and entities in the music industry. According to a YouTube blog post (via The Verge), YouTube partnered with Universal Music Group (UMG). This is one of the largest music labels in the world. Along with this, the company assembled a team of musicians and artists such as OneRepublic, The estate of Frank Sinatra, Anitta, Juanes, Ryan Tedder, Darkchild, Max Richter, and more. This team will “help gather insights on generative AI experiments and research”.
This is essentially a group of authorities in the music industry to help YouTube best handle the situation. YouTube is also planning on making internal changes such as providing AI tools to help detect content that violates the rules, updating policies involving manipulated content, and working on its rights management system. Oddly enough, the company is planning on using generative AI tools to help determine if a piece of content was generated using AI.
This is something that we’ve heard before, “This company is still feeling its way around this new AI age.” It rings true for just about every tech company, and YouTube is no different. With the rise of AI “musicians”, the company has a problem. There are plenty of AI bros salivating over the money they could make ripping off of content that actual talented people made.
This is something that we all acknowledge as unfair. If this runs rampant (well, more rampant than it already is), then YouTube risks losing the trust of the users and creators that populate it today. So, it’s a good thing that YouTube is taking steps to address this issue.The post YouTube is tackling the issue with AI-generated music on the platform appeared first on Android Headlines.

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