Spotify Using AI to Make Human Musicians Extinct?
AI is learning to write pop music. Hide your ears.
Technology threatens to make human musicians about as essential as draft animals. Artificial intelligence is showing it can render songwriters moot, and now it seems that a robot Elton John loaded with AI could actually be capable of going on tour after the real one is gone, performing new songs the Elton-bot instantly writes based on the day’s news.
Musicians are already reeling from the shift to streaming music, which pays artists a of what they used to make on CD sales. Global music industry revenues have been cut in since the peak of CD buying in, are working on AI-driven song creation. By next decade, a Grammy for song of the year might go to a piece of software.
