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The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music
Explore the astonishing amount of music available to AI developers.
TL;DR
- AI-generated music can mimic existing songs, as seen with a variation of the New Radicals' "You Get What You Give" used by Olympic figure skaters.
- Popular AI music generators like Suno have produced tracks strongly resembling famous songs from artists such as Michael Jackson, Ed Sheeran, and Chuck Berry.
- AI music generation requires training on vast quantities of human performances, with AI companies keeping their specific training data secret.
- Four large datasets containing millions of songs have been identified as being shared within the AI development community.
- These datasets include music from major artists like Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, and The Beatles, as well as jazz, classical, and many minor artists.