As AI fakes proliferate, we need to draw a clear distinction between human-made music and AI-generated content

Ever wondered what’s in your morning cereal? Easy – just turn the packaging over and, by law, you’ll see the maker’s clear list of ingredients. Flick on a morning playlist, however, and there’s no immediate way to tell if the song you’re listening to is real or AI-generated.

AI content is filling up streaming platforms. Some mimic the voices of living artists, some the voices of the deceased, and some are batch-generated and posted under the name of entirely fictional artists. All of it draws revenue away from working musicians.

A recent study by MusicMagpie, estimates that, on YouTube alone, there are already well over 1.5 million AI cover tracks. After analysing the 1,500 top-performing AI tracks, they found that Blackpink, Justin Bieber, and Kanye West were out in front as the most AI-plagiarised artists, racking up over 33 million views between them...

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