Hold your (gramo)phone: AI-generated music qualifies for the Grammys – uh, kind of.
The recording academy announced sweeping changes to music’s biggest night on Friday, including allowing AI-powered entries so long as there’s a “meaningful” and “appropriate” human element.
“The GRAMMY Award Recognizes Creative Excellence” reads the rules for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, scheduled for February 4, 2024. “Only human creators might be considered, nominated or won a GRAMMY.”
The rules strictly state that AI work without “human authorship” is excluded from the competition. However, “elements of AI material” are acceptable.
The updated rules coincide with the rise in AI-generated and deepfake songs.
Two-time Grammy winner David Guetta shocked fans this 12 months with an Eminem track, except Real Slim Shady never recorded it.
Subsequently, a spoof song by Drake and The Weeknd, “Heart on My Sleeve”, went viral, prompting removal requests from Universal Music Group resulting from copyright infringement.
At the time, a UMG representative told The Post that the tune, which samples the artists’ voices, “begs the query of which side of the story all stakeholders within the music ecosystem wish to be on: side of artists, fans and other people. creative expression or on the side of deep fakes, frauds and denial of due compensation to artists.
music Group streaming giants reportedly asked like Spotify and Apple Music to “block” AI software corporations from using label songs to coach their technology resulting from the rise in popularity of deepfake vocals.
This week, Sir Paul McCartney revealed his plans for the “last Beatles record” with a little bit help from his friends AI and Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson.
“He [Jackson] was capable of extract John’s voice from a cramped cassette that contained John’s voice and a piano,” McCartney told the BBC concerning the late John Lennon. “He could have separated them using AI – he could have told the machine, ‘This is the voice, that is the guitar, lose the guitar.’ And he did, so it has great application.”
He added: “We were capable of take John’s voice and clean it up with this AI so we could mix the record as usual.”
And while “American Pie” lyricist Don McLean believes computer-generated tunes won’t be “worse” than a few of today’s hits, the Daft Punk member is begging you to disagree.
“We tried to make use of these machines to specific something incredibly moving that a machine cannot feel but a human can,” Thomas Bangalter, one among Daft Punk’s robots, recently told the BBC.
“We’ve all the time been on the side of humanity, not technology,” he added of the electronic duo that broke up two years ago.
