While artists work arduous to supply new music for followers and improve their streaming numbers, an A.I. has effortlessly recorded a track that eclipsed 100 million streams.
According to a report by Music Business Worldwide, Chinese streaming large Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) has recorded and launched over 1,000 new songs that characteristic AI-generated vocals mimicking the human voice. One observe specifically, titled “Today,” has turn into the primary track with an AI voice to surpass the nine-digit milestone. That led to simply underneath $350,000 in streaming income, per MBW.
The songs use TME’s “patented voice synthesis technology,” Lingyin Engine, which is claimed to have the ability to replicate the voices of real-life singers to supply authentic songs all through any style and language. The firm additionally reportedly used the tech to develop “artificial voices in reminiscence of legendary artists” to recreate the voices of deceased music stars, such because the late Anita Mui.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lately sounded the alarm on A.I. piracy within the music trade.
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“There are on-line providers that, purportedly utilizing synthetic intelligence (AI), extract, or reasonably, copy, the vocals, instrumentals, or some portion of the instrumentals from a sound recording, and/or generate, grasp or remix a recording to be similar to or virtually pretty much as good as reference tracks by chosen, well-known sound recording artists,” reads the RIAA’s report.