Ethical AI for Music

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If you’re interested in the use of AI for music, you’re in the right place! Here you’ll find links to all of our articles on AI and music:

• Ethics of generative AI for music: what & for whom, when, how, why

• Profiles of individual companies using genAI in music creation toolsets (not always sent via email, to avoid inbox floods; links are shared in a batch via email)

• Bonus articles - on non-generative AI for music, voice cloning and synthesis, use of AI for purposes other than creating melodies, breaking news, and other goodies

Questions, suggestions, and comments are all welcome!

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Bonus Articles (in chronological order)

AI Ventriloquism: Send in the clones

Say what? Adding audio voiceovers with AI, ethically

More than melodies: Ethics of generative AI for music

ScarJo, pizza glue, Recall spyware? AI ethics & safety news

Breaking news: Big music labels suing Suno and Udio over AI-based copyright infringement

Musician-led AI initiatives

AI and US copyright law - mid-July 2024 update

"Are you for real?" Using AI to detect AI in songs 🗣️

Why are 65-71% of musicians afraid of AI?

What streaming services need to do now to save our music ecosystem

Coming soon (Sept. 2024): “Giving Credit for the 3Cs / 4Cs Where Due”

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[INTRO] Unfair use? Ethics of generative AI for music

[INTRO] Unfair use? The ethics of generative AI for music

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[PART 1] Unfair use? Ethics of generative AI for music - WHY & FOR WHOM

[PART 1] Unfair use? Ethics of generative AI for music - WHY & FOR WHOM

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[PART 2] Unfair use? GenAI music ETHICAL RISKS & CHALLENGES

[PART 2] Unfair use? GenAI music ETHICAL RISKS & CHALLENGES

Support articles:

Ethical AI Standards by Region [PART 2 Supplement in "Unfair use?" series]

4 pillars of ethical genAI for music [Unfair use? series, Part 2]

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[PART 3] Unfair use? Ethics of genAI music - 4Cs and WHO, WHAT, WHEN

PART 3 posts will go out after all support pages and company profiles are published.

Support pages and company profiles:

[PART 3] 9 certified genAI music companies

9 ethical genAI music tools [Unfair Use? series, PART 3]

9 profile pages on certified companies:

• Beatoven.ai

• Boomy

• Endel

• Infinite Album

• Lemonaide

• LifeScore

• SOMMS.ai (now MusicalAI)

• Soundful

• Tuney

[PART 3] 4 major Asia-based uncertified genAI music companies

4 AI music companies in Asia: quick looks [Unfair Use? series, PART 3]

4 profile pages on major Asian companies:

• BandLab

• ByteDance

• HYBE/Supertone

• Tencent Media Entertainment

2 profile pages on voice cloning companies:

• ElevenLabs

• Musicfy

Additional profile pages on uncertified companies outside Asia:

• Amazon Music

• AIVA

• Ecrett Music

• (more coming soon)

All of the above (35 articles on music) are published as of September 24, 2024.
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What’s Next? More on PART 3:

Profile pages of Top 7 companies outside Asia (WIP):

• Adobe (in progress)

• Google (in progress)

• Meta (in progress)

• Microsoft (in progress)

• OpenAI (in progress)

• Suno (in progress)

• Udio (in progress)

[PART 3] 11 other uncertified genAI music companies

Company profile pages are planned for only a subset, and in future; there are too many!

9 tools being profiled:

• AIVA (done)

• Amazon Music (done)

• Ecrett Music (done)

• Melobytes (in progress)

• Mubert (in progress)

• Riffusion (in progress)

• Soundraw (in progress)

• Stability AI (HarmonAI, Stable Audio) (coming soon)

• Wavtool (in progress)

2 now-obsolete tools summarized: Amper Music (Shutterstock), Beatbot (Splash Pro)

[PART 3] Unfair use? Ethics of genAI music - 4Cs and WHO, WHAT, WHEN (wrapping up all of the above; coming soon!)

• Not to be profiled: ACE Studio, Aimi.fm, Amadeus Code, Apple, Audacity, Audialab, Audio Design Desk, Audiomodern, Audioshake, Cassette AI, Computoser, Controlla Voice, DAACI, DataMind Audio, Emvoice, EVITA, Fadr, Generative.fm, Hookpad (Hooktheory), HookSounds, Humtap, IBM, Jukin Composer (Jukin Media), LANDR, Larnii, Limewire, Loudly, Murf.ai, MusicLang, Orb (Producer Suite 3 and Plugins), RipX (Hit’n’Mix), Splice, Spotify, Staccato, Synthesizer V, Vocaloid, WaveAI, Waveformer, Wondercraft.ai.

[PART 3] References page

Includes references we’ve found, including dates for major product announcements.

HOW & WHO

PART 4: Ethics of Top 7 - Training & Reference Data

PART 5: Ethics of Top 7 - Traceability & Fair Use

PART 6: Ethics of Top 7 - Bias Minimization & Diversity

PART 7: Ethics of Top 7 - Cost-Benefit Analysis

CONCLUSION

PART 8: Current State of Ethics 

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