“If music be the food of love, play on”, so the famous aphorism goes. But what if the music didn’t come from a human? What if Daft Punk’s Robot Rock came from an actual robot? Would that change music’s unique ability to move us, transcend boundaries and cut through to our corporeal core?
Musicians are concerned about AI, and rightly so. Popular sites such as Suno and Udio give anyone with a laptop the ability to create a song through a simple prompt; AI tools and bots can artificially inflate artists’ streaming numbers; and fake artists can channel listeners away from actual musicians.
