Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft's ai-powered chatbot, can now compose songs thanks to an integration with ai music app Suno.
Users can enter prompts into Copilot such as “Create a pop song about adventures with your family” and have Suno, through a plug-in, bring their musical ideas to life. In a single sentence, Suno can generate complete songs, including lyrics, instruments and vocals.
Copilot users can access the Suno integration by launching Microsoft Edge, visiting Copilot.Microsoft.com, signing in with their Microsoft account, and enabling the Suno plugin or by clicking on the Suno logo that says “Make music with Suno.”
“We believe this partnership will open new horizons for creativity and fun, making music creation accessible to everyone,” reads a statement. mail posted on the Microsoft Bing blog this morning. “This experience will begin rolling out to users starting today and will ramp up in the coming weeks.”
Both tech giants and startups are increasingly investing in ai-powered music creation technology. In November, Google's ai lab DeepMind and YouTube partnered to launch Lyria, a generation ai model for music, and Dream Track, a limited access tool for creating ai tunes in YouTube Shorts. Meta has published several of his ai.meta.com/blog/audiobox-generating-audio-voice-natural-language-prompts/”>experiments with ai music generation. Elsewhere, Stability ai and Riffusion have launched platforms and apps for creating songs and effects from cues.
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But many of the ethical and legal questions surrounding ai-synthesized music remain unresolved.
ai algorithms “learn” from existing music to produce similar effects, a fact that not all artists (or generation ai users) are comfortable with, especially in cases where artists do not give their input. consent for an ai algorithm to train on their music and they didn't. Not receive compensation for it. Stability ai's own generation ai audio cable ai“>abandon after saying that generation ai “exploits creators,” and the Grammys have banned songs entirely generated by ai from being considered for the awards.
Many genetic ai companies argue that fair use excuses them from having to pay artists whose works are public, even if they are copyrighted. However, it is uncharted legal territory.
For its part, Suno does not reveal the source of its ai training data on its website, nor does it prevent users from entering messages such as “in the style of (artist)”, unlike other ai music tools of another generation.
As the issued usage rights are debated in court, ai-drake-the-weeknd-fake.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener” data-mrf-link=”https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/19/arts/music/ai-drake-the-weeknd-fake.html”>homemade tracks that use genetic ai to conjure up familiar sounds that can be passed off as authentic, or at least close enough, have gone viral. Record labels were quick to point them out to streaming partners, citing intellectual property concerns, and they have. generally been victorious. But the creators of ai tools have simply migrated elsewhere, ai-music”>Underground.
Clarity on the legal status of ai-generated music may come soon, if not through court decisions. a new ai-deepfakes-1234852744/”>inserted The Senate bill would give artists, including musicians, recourse when their digital images, including their musical styles, have been used without their permission.
