As AI-generated music saturates the market, people are realizing they can't distinguish it from human-made music. Many listeners, and musicians, are unsettled by this.
Can you trust your ears to tell man from machine when it comes to music? Most people can't, it seems.
In a recent study by the streaming platform Deezer and market research company Ipsos, 97% of respondents could not tell the difference between musical tracks made entirely by artificial intelligence (AI) and those made by humans. In other words, AI-generated audio is really convincing.
And it's already everywhere, including on the billboard charts: "Walk my Walk," from Breaking Rust — an entirely AI creation, from instrumentals to vocals to image — reached number one on the country digital song chart in mid-November. Then there is Xania Monet, a similar virtual artist with Gospel and R&B charting singles who was recently signed for $3 milli
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