AI music has reached the charts, and the artists using it have stopped hiding it
The american rapper Tyga has admitted that artificial intelligence generated the retro synths on his new album, Timbaland has signed an entirely AI-created pop star, and a machine-assisted summer hit has already reached the Billboard Hot 100. Generative music has arrived in the mainstream, and the artists using it have largely stopped pretending otherwise.
Tyga’s ninth album, the eighties-styled “$tarface”, leaned on AI to conjure its period synths, although the rapper says he wrote the lyrics and sang the vocals himself.
He framed it as just another studio tool, telling interviewers it was “no different than when Auto-Tune came out,” a technology once denounced and now everywhere. Not everyone is persuaded by the comparison.
He is in expanding company, though, as Timbaland has launched an “A-Pop” venture called Stage Zero and signed its first act, TaTa, which he describes as “a living, learning, autonomous music artist built with AI.”
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