Artificial intelligence music generators — platforms that use AI to create new, original music from scratch — can make songs that are almost indistinguishable from human creations.
For some musicians, they’re the next frontier in music-making technology. But for others, they represent a grave threat, flooding the world with low-grade music, stealing the jobs of working musicians, and even spelling the end of the creative process as we know it.
Is this just technophobia, or is music facing AI annihilation?
In a new two-part series, the FT’s pop critic Ludovic Hunter-Tilney explores the emerging world of AI music, and the impact it could have on the industry.
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