You’ve Favorited an AI-generated Track and You Donʼt Know it Yet

Generative AI, boasting so many fears and opportunities alike, has made a breakthrough last year with consumer outputs for images. 

This year is seeing the emergence of the same accessible, affordable, and professional-grade solution for music tracks. Stakes are high that next year the generative video frontier will be crossed.

As far as text-to-audio is concerned, the first generative music AI models made available to the “publicˮ (meaning developers external to the original research team) surfaced last year actually, with MusicGen from Meta at the forefront. Utilizing one of these models on a local system demands a certain level of technical expertise. 

However, there are now several browser-based alternatives available that handle the complex computational tasks on your behalf. 

Like MusicLM from Google, only accessible upon invitation and producing short low-quality outputs at first (24 kHz mono 20 seconds long). 

This year came the last step: professional quality 3 minutes long track with vocals. 

Weʼre speaking of tracks which easily made their way onto the streaming audiences, registering plays while the distributor, the platform, and the listener have no technical means to be aware of the fully generated nature.

Thus making it impossible to identify, attribute, and provide splits.

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