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Never have I seen a more pointed example of "generative AI is very good at cliché"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/an-ai-generated-band-got-1m-plays-on-spotify-now-m…

Deezer-Ipsos survey of 9,000 music listeners in eight countries: 97% can't distinguish AI-generated music, 73% support clear labelling of AI tracks, and more (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a

Deezer-Ipsos survey of 9,000 music listeners in eight countries: 97% can't distinguish AI-generated music, 73% support clear labelling of AI tracks, and more (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a

Attribution-by-design: Ensuring Inference-Time Provenance in Generative Music Systems
Fabio Morreale, Wiebke Hutiri, Joan Serr\`a, Alice Xiang, Yuki Mitsufuji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08062

Attribution-by-design: Ensuring Inference-Time Provenance in Generative Music Systems
The rise of AI-generated music is diluting royalty pools and revealing structural flaws in existing remuneration frameworks, challenging the well-established artist compensation systems in the music industry. Existing compensation solutions, such as piecemeal licensing agreements, lack scalability and technical rigour, while current data attribution mechanisms provide only uncertain estimates and are rarely implemented in practice. This paper introduces a framework for a generative music infras…

Interactive TV group FastStream unveils AI-generated presenters for ROXi, the TV music channel it acquired in May; ROXi airs on Nextgen TV in 31 US markets (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digit…

Tech Company Unveils AI-Generated Music Video Hosts
FastStream, an interactive TV group backed by the likes of Simon Cowell, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue and U2 bassist Adam Clayton, plans to use AI images to mimic VJ presenters on its music TV channel ROXi.

"participating artists will have “full control” over how their likeness and music are used, though it doesn’t share how."
Sure.
https://www.theverge.com/news/829189/warner-music-group-suno-ai-licensing-deal

ACMID: Automatic Curation of Musical Instrument Dataset for 7-Stem Music Source Separation
Ji Yu, Yang shuo, Xu Yuetonghui, Liu Mengmei, Ji Qiang, Han Zerui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07840

ACMID: Automatic Curation of Musical Instrument Dataset for 7-Stem Music Source Separation
Most current music source separation (MSS) methods rely on supervised learning, limited by training data quan- tity and quality. Though web-crawling can bring abundant data, platform-level track labeling often causes metadata mismatches, impeding accurate "audio-label" pair acquisi- tion. To address this, we present ACMID: a dataset for MSS generated through web crawling of extensive raw data, fol- lowed by automatic cleaning via an instrument classifier built on a pre-trained audio encoder tha…

How can you tell if your new favourite artist is a real person?
#music #aislop #ai

As the lyricist behind AI artist Xania Monet signs a $3M record deal, experts say current copyright law may only protect the human-made expressive elements (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/785792/…

What happens when an AI-generated artist gets a record deal? A copyright mess
The only human-made element behind Xania Monet’s act appear to be the lyrics.

Response to President Trump’s Unauthorized Use of “Danger Zone”
Late Saturday, Oct. 18, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social account that portrayed him dumping brown sludge on a crowd of protesters while wearing a crown and flying overhead in a jet labeled “King Trump.”
The music accompanying the video clip was Kenny Loggins’ hit recording “Danger Zone,” from the 1986 motion picture Top Gun (it was also used in the 2022 sequel Top Gun: Maverick).
 

Response to President Trump’s Unauthorized Use of “Danger Zone” - Kenny Loggins
Late Saturday, Oct. 18, President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social account that portrayed him dumping brown sludge on a crowd of protesters while wearing a crown and flying overhead in a jet labeled “King Trump.” The music accompanying the video clip was Kenny Loggins’ hit recording “Danger Zone,” from the …

Data-Driven Analysis of Text-Conditioned AI-Generated Music: A Case Study with Suno and Udio
Luca Casini, Laura Cros Vila, David Dalmazzo, Anna-Kaisa Kaila, Bob L. T. Sturm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11824

Data-Driven Analysis of Text-Conditioned AI-Generated Music: A Case Study with Suno and Udio
Online AI platforms for creating music from text prompts (AI music), such as Suno and Udio, are now being used by hundreds of thousands of users. Some AI music is appearing in advertising, and even charting, in multiple countries. How are these platforms being used? What subjects are inspiring their users? This article answers these questions for Suno and Udio using a large collection of songs generated by users of these platforms from May to October 2024. Using a combination of state-of-the-ar…

Bias beyond Borders: Global Inequalities in AI-Generated Music
Ahmet Solak, Florian Gr\"otschla, Luca A. Lanzend\"orfer, Roger Wattenhofer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01963

Bias beyond Borders: Global Inequalities in AI-Generated Music
While recent years have seen remarkable progress in music generation models, research on their biases across countries, languages, cultures, and musical genres remains underexplored. This gap is compounded by the lack of datasets and benchmarks that capture the global diversity of music. To address these challenges, we introduce GlobalDISCO, a large-scale dataset consisting of 73k music tracks generated by state-of-the-art commercial generative music models, along with paired links to 93k refer…

file under: "stories that would've generated a week's worth of @ThoughtsOnGD@twitter.com plots at bare minimum" https://c.im/@mlupica/115417602146627365

As the lyricist behind AI artist Xania Monet signs a $3M record deal, experts say current copyright law may only protect the human-made expressive elements (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/785792/…

What happens when an AI-generated artist gets a record deal? A copyright mess
The only human-made element behind Xania Monet’s act appear to be the lyrics.

Assessing Data Replication in Symbolic Music via Adapted Structural Similarity Index Measure
Shulei Ji, Zihao Wang, Le Ma, Jiaxing Yu, Kejun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13658

Assessing Data Replication in Symbolic Music via Adapted Structural Similarity Index Measure
AI-generated music may inadvertently replicate samples from the training data, raising concerns of plagiarism. Similarity measures can quantify such replication, thereby offering supervision and guidance for music generation models. Existing similarity measure methods for symbolic music mainly target melody repetition, leaving a gap in assessing complex music with rich textures and expressive performance characteristics. To address this gap, we introduce SSIMuse, the first adaptation of the Str…

I found a musician that's right up my alley: Dante Zimmerman, aka "Dysmn".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTnMKRAnxU4
What's interesting about this is that he apparently uses AI as a tool for digital audio processing. The music is not generated or written by AI. It…

Amazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/amazon-prime-video-ai-video-…

Amazon's Prime Video Launches AI-Generated Video Recaps
Amazon's AI-generated Video Recaps on Prime Video provide 'comprehensive season recaps' to bring viewers up to speed on their favorite shows.

MusicWeaver: Coherent Long-Range and Editable Music Generation from a Beat-Aligned Structural Plan
Xuanchen Wang, Heng Wang, Weidong Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21714 https:/…

MusicWeaver: Coherent Long-Range and Editable Music Generation from a Beat-Aligned Structural Plan
Current music generators capture local textures but often fail to model long-range structure, leading to off-beat outputs, weak section transitions, and limited editing capability. We present MusicWeaver, a music generation model conditioned on a beat-aligned structural plan. This plan serves as an editable intermediate between the input prompt and the generated music, preserving global form and enabling professional, localized edits. MusicWeaver consists of a planner, which translates prompts …

TalkPlayData 2: An Agentic Synthetic Data Pipeline for Multimodal Conversational Music Recommendation
Keunwoo Choi, Seungheon Doh, Juhan Nam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09685 htt…

TalkPlayData 2: An Agentic Synthetic Data Pipeline for Multimodal Conversational Music Recommendation
We present TalkPlayData 2, a synthetic dataset for multimodal conversational music recommendation generated by an agentic data pipeline. In TalkPlayData 2 pipeline, multiple large language model (LLM) agents are created under various roles with specialized prompts and access to different parts of information, and the chat data is acquired by logging the conversation between the Listener LLM and the Recsys LLM. To cover various conversation scenarios, for each conversation, the Listener LLM is c…

Charm quark evolution in the early stages of heavy-ion collisions
Mayank Singh, Manu Kurian, Bj\"orn Schenke, Sangyong Jeon, Charles Gale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18647 h…

Amazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/amazon-prime-video-ai-video-…

Amazon's Prime Video Launches AI-Generated Video Recaps
Amazon's AI-generated Video Recaps on Prime Video provide 'comprehensive season recaps' to bring viewers up to speed on their favorite shows.

TART: A Comprehensive Tool for Technique-Aware Audio-to-Tab Guitar Transcription
Akshaj Gupta, Andrea Guzman, Anagha Badriprasad, Hwi Joo Park, Upasana Puranik, Robin Netzorg, Jiachen Lian, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02597

TART: A Comprehensive Tool for Technique-Aware Audio-to-Tab Guitar Transcription
Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) has advanced significantly for the piano, but transcription for the guitar remains limited due to several key challenges. Existing systems fail to detect and annotate expressive techniques (e.g., slides, bends, percussive hits) and incorrectly map notes to the wrong string and fret combination in the generated tablature. Furthermore, prior models are typically trained on small, isolated datasets, limiting their generalizability to real-world guitar recordings…

Scalable Evaluation for Audio Identification via Synthetic Latent Fingerprint Generation
Aditya Bhattacharjee, Marco Pasini, Emmanouil Benetos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18620 h…

Scalable Evaluation for Audio Identification via Synthetic Latent Fingerprint Generation
The evaluation of audio fingerprinting at a realistic scale is limited by the scarcity of large public music databases. We present an audio-free approach that synthesises latent fingerprints which approximate the distribution of real fingerprints. Our method trains a Rectified Flow model on embeddings extracted by pre-trained neural audio fingerprinting systems. The synthetic fingerprints generated using our system act as realistic distractors and enable the simulation of retrieval performance …