Music tracks produced by AI have been judged ineligible for one of the industry’s top awards. The Recording Academy updated the Grammy rules this week, clarifying that only humans can win the award.
As Variety reports, the new rules for the Grammy Awards “Only human creators can be submitted for consideration. A work that does not include human authorship is not eligible in any category.
Artists will still be able to use AI tools to create music. However, their share of the submitted work must be “more than significant and insignificant.”
While AI-generated tunes won’t qualify for next year’s biggest night in music on January 31st, artists are still working with these technologies and testing the limits of music creation. Paul McCartney, for example, said in an interview with the BBC that he used AI to extract John Lennon’s voice from an old demo recording to create “a final Beatles record”.
In April, an AI-generated song that mimicked the voices of rapper Drake and R&B/pop artist the Weeknd went viral for being incredibly similar to real artists. Its rapidly rising popularity on TikTok, YouTube and Spotify ended when the song was removed from platforms due to Universal Music Group’s copyright claims.
Although artificial intelligence technologies have been around for years, developments in this field have progressed rapidly in recent years and have begun to infiltrate daily life. Following OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Dall-E, new productive AI tools and products from Microsoft, Google, Adobe and other companies have been released. While such tools have great potential to help people with tasks big and small, concerns about job loss and disinformation are often voiced.
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