The Recording Academy and Grammy Awards have decided to embrace modernity rather than shun it. Music created with artificial intelligence will be eligible for entry at the highly prestigious music award.
"Here's the super easy, headline statement: AI, or music that contains AI-created elements is absolutely eligible for entry and for consideration for Grammy nomination. Period," said Recording Academy CEO and President Harvey Mason Jr.
However, he also noted that it is not the AI that will receive the award, but the human who made it. "What's not going to happen is we are not going to give a Grammy or Grammy nomination to the AI portion."
However, it is more complex than what he said. The Recording Academy has a set of stringent and specific rules that will be applied before an AI-generated song can be considered for a Grammy nod.
Grammy Award for AI-Generated Music
Mason emphasized that much of the work behind making music still has to be created by humans and that AI will only assist in the process.
"We don't want to see technology replace human creativity," he said. "We want to make sure technology is enhancing, embellishing, or additive to human creativity. So that's why we took this particular stand in this award cycle."
According to reports, voice modeling, like when the lead vocals are made through AI, is not eligible under performance categories, but still eligible for the songwriting category if it was written by humans.
"Conversely, if a song was sung by an actual human in the studio, and they did all the performing, but AI wrote the lyric or the track, the song would not be eligible in a composition or a songwriting category," Mason added.
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According to Forbes, including AI-generated music is a "smart move" on the Recording Academy's part, as it was described as "undeniable" and "here to stay."
As AI-generated music is still, somewhat, considered music, banning it or ignoring its existence would not prove to be futile in the coming years.
In fact, more and more AI-generated music has surfaced in recent months. A YouTube user, Ghostwriter, began uploading voice modelings of Drake, Rihanna, The Weeknd, and more.
The songs have brought in several millions of streams on the first day of its release, which just proves how powerful and impactful AI will become in the future.
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