Artificial Intelligence has been taking over many creative processes, including in the music industry.
From producing to composing, many creators use AI tools to make their music. Unfortunately, some creators use AI to do everything for them, even writing the lyrics.
I grew up listening to different kinds of music. It is part of my life, something I can’t live without. I spend so much of my free time every day just looking for new songs from all kinds of genres so I can listen to them when I’m studying or just walking around campus.
One day, I was scrolling on YouTube, looking for a new, fresh playlist to use while studying, when I stumbled upon a video featuring different songs.
As someone who loves R&B, I was intrigued by this video’s playlist. From the lyrics, voice-to-melody, I thought whoever composed these songs is a genius. Then I tried to find them on other music platforms.
After 30 minutes of searching, I couldn’t find it anywhere.
I was curious, so I decided to look at the creator's comment section. This is where I found that all of the songs I had enjoyed were made by AI.
The creator said all of their songs were created with the help of AI. There are no singers involved in the making, and the songs will be released on other music platforms later.
A 2023 study by Michele Newman, Lidia Morris, and Jin Ha Lee explored the use of AI in the creative process of music and the ethical implications.
The researchers interviewed six creators working in the music field professionally about the use of AI in their own processes. The three researchers concluded that while AI can help creators to enhance their work, their findings also support that creators are concerned about the transparency of using AI..
My biggest concern is not how people use AI in creating something, but how people feel okay in using AI to replace their own work.
One thing I realized after listening to this AI-generated music is that the more I listen to it, the more it sounds like robots. It feels different compared to when I listen to Keshi or Justin Bieber. It lacks feelings and emotions.
One of the participants in the Newman, Morris, and Lee study said AI might be able to create things, like poems, but it doesn’t create things deliberately like humans do, making it harder for people to “emotionally connect” with it.
I don’t mind listening to any kind of music, but I want to listen to a real human voice with human-made lyrics, not with lyrics made by robots.
Art belongs to humans. It was created by humans, and it’s not supposed to be replaced with AI. I think that’s something that we need to protect.
It seems that the reason why people depend on AI too much is that they’re not confident about their ideas.
I believe that creativity is part of a human being’s natural gift. We are gifted and capable of creating new things and developing those creations into even greater things. AI is created to imitate or copy.
If AI could imitate emotions, humans would have nothing left to give.
