A I (as in Artificial Intelligence):

Plenty of discussion this week about this. A recent newspaper article spoke about various Apps that allow you to easily create your own songs, along with this quote "As an artist I'm a bit frightened - these songs sound really good".  

A friend had made such a song for their husband's birthday, With personalised lyrics and a catchy tune which was extremely good. Then my wife using Suno: a generative artificial intelligence music creation platform, made a song for me: 'My Favourite Partner in Crime'😃*

Then a few days ago I read about the streaming platform: Tidal, that had updated its policies with regard to AI and that music generated by the technology will no longer be monetised on the platform !

And this brings me to music I heard on a YouTube channel under the banner 'Crossroads Records'. There's literally dozens of videos all very similar in structure. It even has a menu guide by listing featured instrumentation:- Reverb-Heavy Electric Slide Guitar - "Train-Whistle" Harmonica (Call and Response) - Deep Hammond B3 Organ & Minor-Key Piano - Slow-Drag Brush Drum Rhythm. 

See what you make of today's track ‘The Last Train from Memphis’ with guitar playing [like Gary Moore] and soulful singing, however no mention at all of artists names playing these instruments. So I'm pretty sure it's AI. 

Is it therefore about enjoying the sound of the music or the ethics of it's origin ? How do you feel ?

* A Link to this song is available upon request. Just ask. 

NB: SUNO Inc. has been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for copyright infringement, and thousands of musicians have signed a letter demanding that the company cease using copyrighted music in their training data. Suno does not disclose the dataset used to train its artificial intelligence.