It is a challenge, acknowledges Manuel Moussallum, Deezer’s head of research, but the company’s detection technology has so far maintained a low false positive rate, he says, and research to better understand hybrid cases, where AI is only partially used, is ongoing.<\/p>\n
Yet others see such concerns as a distraction.<\/p>\n
“There is a lobbying message to say ‘we can’t draw the line, and therefore we shouldn’t do anything’,” says David Hoffman, a professor at Duke University in North Carolina who studies the impact of AI-generated music on artists’ livelihoods.<\/p>\n
He argues platforms should at least label fully AI-generated tracks and assess the scale of the remaining issue from there.<\/p>\n
And listeners appear to want labels: in the Deezer\u2013Ipsos poll, around 80% of respondents said AI-generated music should be clearly labelled, though views on filtering were more divided.<\/p>\n
“Listeners deserve awareness,” says singer-songwriter Tift Merritt, who works with Hoffman as a practitioner-in-residence at Duke, citing the way we provide nutritional labels on food or tell consumers if it is organic.<\/p>\n
What may really be stopping Spotify from embracing labelling and filtering is economics, speculate many.<\/p>\n
Spotify is trying to optimise for platform growth, says Prey from Oxford. Keeping recommendation systems as “unencumbered and free to operate as possible” helps with that.<\/p>\n
Detecting AI-generated content would add cost, Hoffman notes, and it may also be cheaper to serve up AI music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is a challenge, acknowledges Manuel Moussallum, Deezer’s head of research, but the company’s detection technology has so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-554264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}