Fully AI-generated music to be banned from Australian charts

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Australia’s recorded music industry will bar tracks wholly generated by artificial intelligence from official chart.

The crackdown comes as a variation of Madonna’s pop hit “Like a Prayer” created by an Australian producer using AI-generated vocals and drums has spent 16 weeks in the Australian top 20, stoking debate about generative AI’s place in music. It peaked at number two on the Australian Record Industry Association’s top 20 Australian singles chart in May and remained in fourth place on Tuesday.

Wholly AI-generated tracks will be banned from the ARIA charts from Monday next week, but some AI-assisted music will remain eligible, an ARIA statement said.

 

Tracks can be eligible only if “humans wrote the song and performed the lead vocal and the primary instruments,” among other requirements, the statement said.

AI-generated music would also be ineligible for the Australian industry’s prestigious ARIA awards.

 

[Hydrangea 8,046]

Australia showing the rest of the world some fkin sense 

[Morphine Prince 109,780]

There should be ZERO AI in music. 

[DESTROY UR DISEASE 21,028]

now may the rest of the world follow their steps

[gagzus 24,200]

Thank god. Maybe next we can ban fully AI generated songs too.

[Wombat 420]

next step is for music platforms like Spotify and AM to ban GenAI songs