The Recording Academy, which is the group behind the Grammy Awards, mentioned an AI track is just eligible if a human meaningfully contributed to the track too.

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The Recording Academy, which is the group behind the Grammy Awards, mentioned an AI track is just eligible if a human meaningfully contributed to the track too.

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Synthetic intelligence has proved it may possibly do a number of issues — from writing a radio script to render textual content into lifelike paintings. However can it win a Grammy?

Nicely, sure and no.

The Recording Academy, which is the group behind the Grammy Awards, outlined new guidelines forward of subsequent 12 months’s competitors, one among which states that solely “human creators” are eligible for the music business’s highest honor.

Songs that embrace components generated by AI can nonetheless be nominated, however there should be proof that an actual individual meaningfully contributed to the track too.

With that, solely people — not AI — can nominate their work for an award.

“If there’s an AI voice singing the track or AI instrumentation, we’ll take into account it,” Harvey Mason Jr., the CEO of the Recording Academy, informed Grammy.com. “However in a songwriting-based class, it has to have been written principally by a human.”

Mason added that AI will “unequivocally” form the way forward for the music business, and as an alternative of downplaying its significance, the Grammy Awards ought to confront questions associated to AI head on.

“How can we adapt to accommodate? How can we set guardrails and requirements?” Mason mentioned. “There are a number of issues that must be addressed round AI because it pertains to our business.”

The music business shouldn’t be the one subject grappling to face a future the place AI performs a much bigger function.

In regulation, attorneys are weighing the advantages and pitfalls of AI in citing court docket instances. In the meantime, the U.S. Copyright Workplace has issued up to date steerage on submitting AI-assisted artistic work for copyright consideration.