{"id":77963,"date":"2018-04-21T02:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T09:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/how-music-generated"},"modified":"2018-04-21T02:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T09:02:22","slug":"how-music-generated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/how-music-generated","title":{"rendered":"How Music Generated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-music-generated.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is an enduring fear in the music industry that artificial intelligence will replace the artists we love, and end creativity as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>As ridiculous as this claim may be, it\u2019s grounded in concrete evidence. Last December, an AI-composed song populated several New Music Friday playlists on Spotify, with full support from Spotify execs. An entire startup ecosystem is emerging around services that give artists automated songwriting recommendations, or enable the average internet user to generate customized instrumental tracks at the click of a button.<\/p>\n<p>But AI\u2019s long-term impact on music creation isn\u2019t so cut and dried. In fact, if we as an industry are already thinking so reductively and pessimistically about AI from the beginning, we\u2019re sealing our own fates as slaves to the algorithm. Instead, if we take the long view on how technological innovation has made it progressively easier for artists to realize their creative visions, we can see AI\u2019s genuine potential as a powerful tool and partner, rather than as a threat.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/8333911\/artificial-intelligence-music-reshaping-destroying-industry\">https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/8333911\/artifici...g-industry<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an enduring fear in the music industry that artificial intelligence will replace the artists we love, and end creativity as we know it. As ridiculous as this claim may be, it\u2019s grounded in concrete evidence. Last December, an AI-composed song populated several New Music Friday playlists on Spotify, with full support from Spotify [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,418,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-internet","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}