A track generated entirely with the help of Artificial Intelligence reached No. 1 on the Billboard Digital chart. The trend has also reached Romania, where several songs have gone through incredible changes.
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Romanian artists say that the way in which music will be produced is completely changing, but specialists are convinced that people’s creativity cannot be replaced.
Artificial intelligence is mainly used to modify songs. They can be transformed to fit a different musical style, or even a different decade.
An example is a mane released by Adrian Copilul Minune in 2004, modified with the help of artificial intelligence to sound like a jazz piece.
Even the singer Deliric was surprised to listen to a song of his from 9 years ago, orchestrated on blues rhythms.
“Internet user 257 (n.d. – modified the song). It’s been a wave of popularity. The AI remix of the blues ‘Boss’ sounds like a song from the 50s, and it really sounds impressive. I think we’ll get to the point soon where we won’t know which songs are AI and which aren’t. Before, if you put out an album every 3 or 5 years, it was ok. Now, artists put out a song a week, 3 albums a year just to cope with the crazy pace, because it’s not so much the quality, it’s the speed you deliver. So that’s the next step of adaptation”he told ProTV News.
What the specialists in the field say
“If in the 70s, to make a song, you spent at least a month in the studio to record it, meaning that just making a drum you spent 3-4 days to make it sound good. In the 90s, the first ways to compose with software appeared. Today, with AI, you can make 2-3-4 songs a day. At the end of the day, human input will be essential, because this application is accessible to everyone”said Ștefan Lucian, CEO of the production house.
Even our production houses have used AI, but only to remix tracks that were released and composed by humans. “A venit Politia” modified in French is very successful.
Ștefan Lucian, CEO of the production house: “We also play with these apps and when prompting songs we hear voices that sound like our artists. It’s a market that needs to be regulated.”
The AI song that hit the charts
Globally, a 100% AI-generated song reached #1 on Billboard Digital. In just a few days, it was listened to on streaming platforms almost 3 million times.
“It simply learned how to produce music, content. Just as we humans, ChatGPT, learned how to speak by analyzing Wikipedia and the whole net, that’s exactly how an AI that makes music learned to make music from human-made tracks. If human producers and new music disappear, the AI will cap here. It’s unlikely that it will learn on its own to come up with creativity and innovation.”said Viorel Spînu, AI specialist.
