Michael Smith, an American musician, has been charged with multiple offenses for allegedly using artificial intelligence to generate music and manipulating streaming numbers on music platforms to siphon over $10 million in royalties. From 2017 to 2024, Smith created hundreds of thousands of computer-generated songs using AI technology and boosted stream counts through automated bots, illegally earning approximately $1.2 million in royalties each year. He collaborated with others to fabricate stream counts through fake accounts, stealing royalties that rightfully belong to legitimate musicians and composers. Although charged with telecommunications fraud...

Kunlun Wanwei Technology Co., Ltd. has launched the music platform 'Yinfeng AI', which utilizes AI technology to automatically generate complete songs in various styles, lasting 4 minutes, based on the text provided by users, offering a personalized music creation experience. The platform also features local generation and extension functions, allowing users to make personalized adjustments to their musical works, and supports music trading, combining artistic creation with commercial value. Collaborating with platforms like Kuaishou to enhance the dissemination of musical works. As a new breakthrough in AI music creation, Yinfeng AI provides a fresh creative avenue for music enthusiasts and creators.

After MiniMax launched its first AI HD video generation model, its subsidiary Conch AI has added the features of 'AI Music Creation' and 'AI Video Generation'. Users can automatically generate music by creating lyrics and selecting music styles, while videos can be generated simply by inputting creative descriptions. The music feature offers a variety of styles, but the quality of the generated music is average; the video feature can automatically create content based on input descriptions, presenting a poetic effect, although the image quality still has room for improvement. Currently, these two features are available for users to experience at no cost for a limited time.

Melodisco is an open-source AI music player that focuses on personalized music experiences. It features a collection of 300,000 AI songs, with capabilities for AI music generation, smart recommendations, and diverse playlist management. Users can explore charts like the trending, popular, and new release charts, and use random roaming to discover new songs. It supports song favorites, recent play history, and import and share functionalities. In terms of player component design, it offers sequential, random, and single-loop play modes, along with progress and volume control. It integrates the Stripe payment system and supports Vercel and Dock.

On August 14th, Beijing time, Kunlun Wanwei officially launched Melodio, the world's first AI streaming music platform, along with the AI music commercial creation platform Mureka. Both products are powered by Kunlun Wanwei's latest self-developed DiT (Diffusion Transformer) architecture music model, Skymusic2.0, marking a new height in AI music creation technology.

Meta (formerly Facebook) and Universal Music Group (UMG) have expanded their long-standing music licensing agreement aimed at enhancing copyright protection while addressing solutions for the application of AI technology in the music field. The new agreement allows users to freely share songs from UMG's music library across Meta's platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Horizon, Threads, and WhatsApp, ensuring that users can enjoy music while avoiding copyright infringement.

Sponge Music is an AI-based music creation tool designed to simplify the music production process, enabling everyone to easily realize their musical dreams. By simply inputting inspiration or lyrics, the AI generates music works, providing a convenient creation method and rich customization features that support various music styles and adjustment options. Sponge Music supports two creation modes: Inspiration Creation and Custom Creation, allowing users to input ideas or lyrics and select genres, moods, and timbres, generating music with one click. Testing shows that the music generated in Custom Creation mode yields good results, and Chinese processing can...

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In the realm of contemporary music creation, the application of AI technology is garnering increasing attention. However, the complexities of copyright issues and fair compensation for artists pose significant challenges for many startups in this field. Yet, Indian startup Beatoven.ai appears to have found a morally and responsibly sound approach to address these challenges.Mansoor Rahimat Khan, the co-founder and CEO of Beatoven.ai, is a professional sitar player hailing from a family with a se

YouTube launched a generative AI feature last year that can create music in the style of well-known artists like Charli XCX, John Legend, and T-Pain. Now, the video platform is seeking agreements with major record labels to allow it to replicate more musicians.

A copyright storm is brewing in the field of AI music creation. Major players in the music industry, including Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Records, have jointly filed a lawsuit against the AI music creation companies Suno and Udio, alleging large-scale copyright infringement.

Several major record labels have jointly sued two AI startups, accusing them of using copyrighted music without permission to train their music generation models, resulting in audio that infringes on commercial copyrights. The lawsuit was coordinated by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and involves the defendants Uncharted Labs, which developed Udio, and Suno, based in Massachusetts.

The launch of GPT-4 features multimodal capabilities surpassing its predecessors, leading AI technology development. Baidu introduces Wenxin Yiyan, initiating the domestic multimodal competition with a user base exceeding 100 million. AI Sun Yanzi emerges, triggering controversies over AI music synthesis and copyright. Maoyake Camera launches, sweeping social media and igniting a trend in AI photography products. The state releases 'Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services' to regulate the AIGC industry.

Microsoft Copilot has partnered with Suno to launch an AI music creation plugin. Users can create original songs by enabling the Suno plugin and providing a brief text prompt. Suno is an AI music startup based in Cambridge that offers music creation tools via the Discord platform. In addition to Suno, other companies like Meta and Google are also testing generative AI music tools.

🎵 AI Innovations in Music Streaming: Spotify is testing a new feature for AI-generated personalized playlists. 👥 Rising User Interest: News of this feature testing has sparked widespread attention on TikTok. 💡 Strategy to Enhance User Engagement: Once officially launched, it may attract users by providing a more personalized experience.

76% of respondents believe that "AI should not use artists' music or voices without permission." 43,000 people were surveyed across 26 countries, with 74% agreeing that "AI should not be used to clone or mimic artists without authorization." People remain cautious about artificial intelligence. The survey results provide policymakers with references to advocate for the establishment of responsible and safe AI standards.

OnePlus has taken a significant step by launching a brand new AI music creation platform, marking its entry into the forefront of innovative technology. The platform offers features such as intelligent synthesis and audio processing, enabling users to easily create high-quality music. The founder stated that creativity should be an experience accessible to everyone. The AI music creation platform is officially live and has garnered widespread attention in the industry.

YouTube has launched the Dream Track AI music experiment, enabling users to participate in music creation by describing emotions or concepts. The experiment features well-known artists like Demi Lovato and Charli XCX, providing 30-second song clips. It aims to deepen the connection between singers, creators, and fans, facilitating tighter connections through interactive tools. YouTube plans to introduce more AI music tools to simplify song creation while protecting artists' rights.

Music startup Riffusion has completed a $4 million funding round to develop AI music creation technology. This round was led by Greycroft Partners with participation from South Park Commons and Sky9. Riffusion uses AI to generate short musical pieces from text prompts, attracting the attention of tech giants. The funds will help Riffusion transform an amateur project into a mature AI music company. Riffusion avoids deepfake techniques to manage AI creation effectively.

Stability AI has released an AI music generation tool called 'Stable Audio', capable of generating high-quality commercial music lasting up to 90 seconds. Stable Audio uses latent diffusion technology to address issues of music quality and coherence. Unlike other music generation models, Stable Audio can produce music up to 90 seconds long with excellent sound quality. Stability AI has partnered with the commercial music library AudioSparx to provide...