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With AI, Anyone Can Make Music. But Does Everyone Want to Make Music?

Using AI song generation tools makes it easy to create music. But adoption of generative music platforms is slow.

Until the rules around training are clarified, through court cases or regulation, “corporate brands don’t want any of the risk” that comes with opening themselves up to potential litigation, explains Chris Walch, CEO and co-founder of Lifescore. While the average civilian’s interest in AI song generation remains unproven, plenty of producers and aspiring artists, who are already making music on a daily basis, would like to test products that spark ideas or streamline their workflow. That’s still a large user-base — “the global total addressable market for digital music producers alone is about 66 million,” according to Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava, “and that continues to grow at a pretty rapid pace” — though it’s not the entire world’s population.

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