{"id":321863,"date":"2026-03-04T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/321863\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:36:09","slug":"artist-charlie-puth-tapped-as-chief-music-officer-of-an-ai-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/321863\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Charlie Puth tapped as ‘chief music officer\u2019 of an AI platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Puth is going all in on AI.<\/p>\n

Moises, a music-tech company, announced Wednesday that Puth, the Grammy-nominated singer, has been tapped as its chief music officer, a role that entails guiding its creative and product direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery musician I know is using Moises, and I\u2019ve been using it in my own creative process for years,\u201d Puth said in a statement. \u201cIt opens up possibilities that used to take hours or expensive studio setups, whether that\u2019s isolating vocals to study technique or experimenting with arrangements in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n

For several years, there have been contentious debates in Hollywood over regulating AI. Many creatives remain wary about AI technology, especially when content generation capabilities are involved.<\/p>\n

But in recent months, more AI companies have pushed to strike licensing deals with talent across sectors \u2014 from film and TV to video games \u2014 to avoid blowback from artists who worry that their voices and likenesses are being used without their consent. <\/p>\n

Notably, the AI voice generation platform ElevenLabs teamed up with the likes of actors Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine to license their famous voices<\/a> for generative audio uses. Singer Liza Minnelli also collaborated on an AI-generated album<\/a> made by the company.<\/p>\n

Puth has been a public supporter of experimenting with AI. <\/p>\n

In 2023, he was among a handful of celebrities who became the first to sign onto an AI music partnership. Puth collaborated with Google<\/a> to make his voice available for AI-generated YouTube Shorts soundtracks.<\/p>\n

He has also been a longtime user of Moises, having recently partnered with it to launch a “Jam Sessions” contest<\/a> for his fans. <\/p>\n

\u201cAI, when done right, isn\u2019t here to replace musicians,\u201d Puth said in his statement about his new role. <\/p>\n

\"CharlieCharlie Puth performs the national anthem at the Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Feb. 8. Thearon W. Henderson \/ Getty Images file<\/p>\n

Moises, founded in 2019 as an AI-powered service marketed to musicians, is primarily used to isolate vocals and instruments, which is often necessary in remixing or sampling songs. The company \u2014 which has 70 million users worldwide \u2014 also touts tools to detect and change song keys or to detect and generate the correct guitar chords for songs.<\/p>\n

Last year, it made further forays into generative AI by building an AI-augmented music studio that allows users to generate song stems, the individual music files that make up tracks, by inputting text prompts or their own audio snippets as references.<\/p>\n

Co-founder and CEO Geraldo Ramos said he wants to differentiate Moises from AI music generators \u201cwhere you can just bang the keyboard and get a full song.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can generate building blocks of music with text. So, for example, you can start with a guitar and say, \u2018I want a bass here that\u2019s funky and groovy.\u2019 And then it creates a bass that fits your initial input,\u201d Ramos said. \u201cBut you can\u2019t just go from zero to a full song with only one prompt. We don\u2019t offer that solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramos said Puth also used the platform ahead of his Super Bowl national anthem performance. <\/p>\n

Puth loaded tracks into Moises to practice and also used it to experiment with different keys and other elements for his upcoming album, \u201cWhatever\u2019s Clever!\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent months, record companies have also tried to embrace the rise of AI in music by negotiating deals that compensate human artists.<\/p>\n

Late last year, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group signed major licensing deals with the AI music studios Stability AI and Udio \u2014 with both music labels settling their copyright infringement lawsuits<\/a> against Udio. Around the same time, UMG, WMG and Sony Music Entertainment also announced separate AI licensing agreements with Klay, a small music technology company based in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Many such licensing deals have been born out of artists\u2019 continued pushback against and concern about the use of their work and likenesses to train AI models without permission or compensation. In 2024, more than 11,000 creative professionals<\/a> signed an open letter calling for prohibiting using human art to train artificial intelligence without permission.<\/p>\n

Moises has also struck licensing deals with singers for its own AI voice models. Ramos said the company has them record their voices in a studio for around a week, paying for their time and licensing the vocals they produce. Then, he said, part of the platform\u2019s subscription revenue is divided among those singers on a recurring basis.<\/p>\n

As AI-generated music proliferates online, some listeners have lamented its quiet incorporation into streaming services. Last year, around 6,300 Spotify users voted in a live poll<\/a> for the platform to \u201cintroduce a clear label for AI-generated songs and provide an option to filter them out entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n

The industry has also struggled with the technology. Harvey Mason Jr., president and CEO of the Recording Academy, told Billboard<\/a> in December that how the Grammys handles AI-generated or AI-assisted music is \u201cthe toughest part of my job.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he has seen uses ranging from someone generating an entire track to someone producing an entire song on their own and then supplementing small tidbits with AI. <\/p>\n

\u201cThese people that are professionals are generally somewhere in the middle, where they\u2019re using it as a tool,\u201d Mason said. \u201cThey\u2019re unlocking something when they\u2019re stuck on a lyric, or they\u2019re trying to find 15 things that rhyme with \u2018this.\u2019 Also, people are using it as inspiration, not just taking what it gives you. They are just using it as a launch point.\u201d<\/p>\n

He noted that using AI doesn\u2019t necessarily make an entry ineligible for the Grammys, but it requires hopeful nominees to \u201cchoose the right categories to be considered in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramos said he believes much of the pushback comes from people\u2019s annoyance that AI models\u2019 outputs are diluting a market once filled with the creations of human artists. He said that because Moises doesn\u2019t generate full songs, it has largely avoided that kind of backlash.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we have a lot of less resistance on that front because of the nature of the products that we\u2019re doing. So that\u2019s why we were able to partner with artists like Charlie,\u201d Ramos said. \u201cI think we\u2019re well-positioned in a different space compared to these generators.\u201d<\/p>\n

Puth has also said he doesn\u2019t believe AI is \u201cever going to completely take over human-made music, mainly because what makes human-made music so special are its imperfections.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said in a social media video<\/a> last year that AI tends to erase human mistakes that would otherwise \u201cadd to the vibe,\u201d saying too much technical perfection can take away from the music.<\/p>\n

“AI is never going to wipe us off the planet creatively. Like every new piece of technology that comes around every decade, we humans have to learn how to work with it to make music that no one\u2019s ever heard before,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are all imperfect beings, but that\u2019s what makes art relatable.\u201d<\/p>\n