Grammy: Brakes on AI

the American Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Announce a new rule banning creators industrial artificial intelligence (AI) to be nominated for an award Grammy.

The rule, voted on in May at an Academy board meeting, states that “only human creators may be submitted for consideration” and that “work not containing human creativity is disqualified in any category.”

However, if the work relies on human creativity coupled with artificial intelligence, only the human creation component is eligible. Moreover “it must be meaningful and more than just the bare minimum”. The Academy defines “minimalism” as “what is of no importance or significance, so insignificant as to be worth ignoring.”

Creators who exclusively feature any AI material incorporated into a work will be ineligible to nominate.

He said, “If there is an AI voice singing the song or an AI format, we will consider the project.” Harvey Mason Jr, CEO of the Recording Academy, at Grammy.com. He added, “But in a category that relies on songwriting, one has to write music primarily.”

Harvey Mason Jr. added that artificial intelligence will “undoubtedly” shape the future of the music industry, and that to downplay its importance, the Grammys should confront questions about artificial intelligence head-on.

Artificial intelligence brings John Lennon’s voice to life

The announcement comes a few days after news of a prank song was reported the Beatleswhich was recorded using artificial intelligence to reproduce his voice John Lennonwill be released this year.

In an interview broadcast BBCthe Paul McCartney He explained that Lennon’s voice in this new song was taken from an old tape and separated from the backing track to produce this new song.

“We were able to take John’s voice and clean it up by using AI to mix the recording,” he said.

Although he did not reveal the name of the song, it is speculated that it is from John’s 1978 production entitled “Now and later». McCartney received the demo from John’s widow, Yoko Ono in 1994, and it is rumored that there are several songs on one cassette titled “to peeMade by Lennon before his death in 1980.

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