Are AI Music Tools A New Instrument?

Pleasure to be here.

Thanks for having me.

To open, I had a question for you.

There are two songs that I want to talk about.

One is a rapper, Phoenix Flixen.

He has a single out called Rubbers.

It climbed to number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 this summer.

And people started noticing that there was something a little weird about his vocals.

It just didn't sound quite like him.

And an AI detection tool then identified that the track contained music that came from an AI-generated platform.

The second one, I'm not even sure if I'm going to try and say this name, but I would say that it translates from in Sweden to I Know You're Not Mine.

It's a folk pop song that's credited to a mysterious artist named Jacob.

And more than five million streams, it was number one on Spotify in Sweden.

It was the biggest Swedish song of the year.

And the journalists are looking for this person named Jacob.

And they couldn't find interviews.

They couldn't find anything about this person.

This person didn't exist.

And it turns out that a team of Danish music producers at a music marketing company made the song.

This was a fully AI generated song.

And Sweden decided, the official Billboard chart decided to pull the song with the rule that it has to be that a song that is mainly, and I'm curious about mainly AI generated, shouldn't be able to go on the list.

So how do you think about this? Should AI music exist on the billboard? And what does mainly mean? It's doing a lot of work there in terms of AI generated versus human generated versus mixture of music.

Where's this line?

Great question.

I mean, the two terms that we use in the industry are assistive AI and generative AI.