There are already countless songs on Spotify, Apple Music, and SoundCloud. And as tunes become easier to create, anyone can add to the copyright din.

Only “human creators” can be nominated for Grammy Awards, according to new eligibility requirements released Friday by the Recording Academy, as the music industry adds new limitations for songs produced by artificial intelligence.

Any work that features elements created by AI must also feature a “human authorship component” that is “meaningful” in order to be considered for a Grammy Award, according to new requirements released Friday by the Recording Academy.

The Recording Academy previously said it “embraces advances in technology,” adding it wanted to ensure “human creativity and passion is protected.” song created by artificial intelligence must have a “human authorship component” that is “meaningful,” according to new eligibility requirements.

Explore how AI is revolutionizing the music industry, from creating original songs to altering how we discover and listen to music & even posing questions about copyright.

MusicGen has been trained on 20,000 hours of music.

Meta has unveiled MusicGen, an artificial intelligence(AI) music-generating system which can be conditioned using text prompts or melodies. It’s similar to Google’s MusicLM, which can build on existing melodies, whether they are whistled, hummed, sung, or played on an instrument.

Generating music is a challenging task as it contains harmonies and melodies from different instruments, which create complex structures. Meta’s model was trained on 20,000 hours of music, reported Tech Xplore. Meta released a demo of MusicGen on Hugging Face, and Interesting Engineering decided to have a go at it.

Instead of yanking the rug away from producers, these tools can actually streamline the music production workflow. We put together a guide to help you get your feet wet.