![]() The two newest tracks just happen to be their first public foray into pop styles. These “AI” songs may still reside in science-experiment territory, but the possibility of their existence raises other questions: How should the litigious world of songwriting licensing handle a piece of commercially released music specifically intended to emulate, but not duplicate, another artist? Could someone with a significant influence on the sound of modern music-like, say, the Beatles-argue that their copyrights are infringed by software designed to deconstruct, analyze, and iterate on their actual work? As a post from the Flow Machines blog explains, French musician Benoît Carré “arranged and produced the songs, and wrote the lyrics.” Coherency apparently wasn’t high on Carré’s list of lyrical priorities, but he did sneak a “good day sunshine” into the “Beatles” song, which incorporates so much sonic déjà vu that it sounds like a Muzak version of the uniformly disappointing covers from Across the Universe.Ī full album of Flow Machines AI music is expected next year, but the Sony CSL team has been working on computer-assisted music for a few years now-mostly jazz, the subject of a 2014 article in the Atlantic. ![]() The singularity isn’t upon us. Neither of these songs were entirely composed by artificial intelligence, nor did a computer write the words. ![]()
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