FT Tech Tonic AI Music: The Infinite Jukebox
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Sep 3, 2025 Dive into the world of generative AI and its uncanny ability to create music that sounds human-made. Discover the amusing trials of an AI music generator across various genres, from rock to death metal. Unpack the concerns about job losses for musicians and the ethical dilemmas surrounding AI in music. Explore the transformative effects on the industry as personalized AI models create unique compositions, raising critical questions about creativity and ownership. Is AI the future of music, or a threat to human artistry?
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Building Bespoke Choir Models
- Holly Herndon built bespoke AI models by recording and training on choirs she assembled.
- She deliberately created custom datasets so the models sounded unique to her practice.
Travelling Choir Recordings For A Supermodel
- Herndon recorded 15 different UK choirs from Scotland to Wales using a songbook designed to cover English phonemes.
- The recordings were combined into a collective dataset used to create a supermodel for an exhibition.
Scale Enables Unprecedented Music Generation
- Mass-market AI models learn composition rules by ingesting vast online music datasets, often without consent.
- That scale produces unprecedented capability to generate anything that echoes popular music history.