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Will Generative AI Become a Creator Terminator?

A study by CISAC found that AI music will boom and put almost a quarter of publishing-side collections revenue at risk. The industry needs to prepare.

Music made by generative AI has been on the horizon as an issue for a couple of years, and the industry started playing close attention when the “ Fake Drake ” track hit streaming services in April 2023. “There’s no way we can or should stand against AI — it can be a wonderful tool,” said songwriter and ABBA frontman Björn Ulvaeus, who serves as president of CISAC, at a Nov. 3 online press conference to announce the results of the study. The current thinking is that it makes more sense to license these rights, then require AI programs to operate with a certain level of transparency to track the works they reference in response to a given prompt.

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