AI songs are flooding Apple Music but nobody is actually listening to them
Apple Music VP Oliver Schusser says that while AI-generated music now makes up a large share of submissions to Apple Music , it accounts for almost none of what people actually play. Oliver Schusser In an interview published on April 22, Schusser highlighted an imbalance. He explained that more than a third of tracks delivered to the service are "100% AI," but listening remains below 0.5%. Apple is taking proactive steps before AI-generated music distorts the platform's integrity. "We have developed — and we've never talked about this — but we've developed technology in-house that would allow us to exactly see what music people are delivering us," Schusser said, "what AI [model] it is and all that." The company is asking labels and distributors to disclose AI use in songs, while also relying on internal systems to analyze incoming content and verify those disclosures. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
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Apple Music VP Oliver Schusser says that while AI-generated music now makes up a large share of submissions to Apple Music , it accounts for almost none of what people actually play. Oliver Schusser In an interview published on April 22, Schusser highlighted an imbalance. He explained that more than a third of tracks delivered to the service are "100% AI," but listening remains below 0.5%. Apple is taking proactive steps before AI-generated music distorts the platform's integrity. "We have developed — and we've never talked about this — but we've developed technology in-house that would allow us to exactly see what music people are delivering us," Schusser said, "what AI [model] it is and all that." The company is asking labels and distributors to disclose AI use in songs, while also relying on internal systems to analyze incoming content and verify those disclosures. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
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Apple Music VP Oliver Schusser says that while AI-generated music now makes up a large share of submissions to Apple Music , it accounts for almost none of what people actually play.
Oliver Schusser In an interview published on April 22, Schusser highlighted an imbalance.
He explained that more than a third of tracks delivered to the service are "100% AI," but listening remains below 0.5%.
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