![]() Several lawsuits making their way through the courts will likely have a bearing on music-generating AI, including one pertaining to the rights of artists whose work is used to train AI systems without their knowledge or consent.įor its part, Meta, which isn’t imposing restrictions on how MusicGen can be used, says that all the music MusicGen was trained on was “covered by legal agreements with the right holders,” including a deal with Shutterstock. It might not be long before there’s guidance on the matter. But there’s still a lack of clarity on whether “deepfake” music violates the copyright of artists, labels and other rights holders. Music labels have been quick to flag them to streaming partners, citing intellectual property concerns - and they’ve generally been victorious. Increasingly, homemade tracks that use generative AI to conjure familiar sounds that can be passed off as authentic, or at least close enough, have been going viral. AI like MusicGen “learns” from existing music to produce similar effects, a fact with which not all artists - or generative AI users - are comfortable. But major ethical and legal issues have yet to be ironed out. Not to be outdone by Google, Meta has released its own AI-powered music generator and, unlike Google, open-sourced it. Generative music is improving, clearly (see Riffusion, Dance Diffusion and OpenAI’s Jukebox). Here’s the output from MusicGen for “jazzy elevator music”: Its songs are reasonably melodic, at least for basic prompts like “ambient chiptunes music,” and - to my ears - on par (if not slightly better) with the results from Google’s AI music generator, MusicLM. So how does MusicGen perform? Well, I’d say - though certainly not well enough to put human musicians out of a job. This free service can be used to generate individual barcodes or called via URLs to include inline PNG or JPEG images directly into your documents. The company hasn’t provided the code it used to train the model, but it has made available pre-trained models that anyone with the right hardware - chiefly a GPU with around 16GB of memory - can run. The Model GS-101B GPS/IRIG-B Synchronized Time Code Generator (STCG) is a low cost high performance STCG that provides many features not found on higher cost units. ![]() Meta says that MusicGen was trained on 20,000 hours of music, including 10,000 “high-quality” licensed music tracks and 390,000 instrument-only tracks from ShutterStock and Pond5, a large stock media library. ![]() We release code (MIT) and models (CC-BY NC) for open research, reproducibility, and for the music community: /h1l4LGzYgf MusicGen can be prompted by both text and melody. We present MusicGen: A simple and controllable music generation model. ![]()
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