Aug 28, 2026 – 1.09pmYou’ve probably heard AI music. When you’re out at the shops, a restaurant or even home and the music is from a playlist someone picked at random, it’s likely an AI-generated song has infiltrated the mix. It will be a remix of a classic song with a new, uncredited voice, or a lo-fi instrumental that’s difficult to distinguish from so many others.For now, you can usually tell by the too-clean tone and absence of vocal quirks. There’s still something that sounds not quite right about it. But as AI music takes up soundwaves previously reserved for human-written songs, the backlash is growing. It’s part of a wider war against artificial intelligence that is emerging on many different fronts.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Emma McGrath-CohenReporterEmma McGrath-Cohen is a journalist for The Australian Financial Review. Message Emma on Signal @emmamc.26Fetching latest articles
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