Generative Music AI Is Already Creating Tens of Millions of Songs – Billboard

Generative artificial intelligence is currently one of the hottest topics in Silicon Valley, and its impact is already being felt in the music industry. BandLab -- the music-creation app that has become popular on TikTok -- relies on AI as the engine for its tool SongStarter. Users can lean on it to generate beats or melodies at random, or prompt it to spit something out based on specific lyrics and emojis; BandLab's 60 million registered creators are churning out more than 17 million songs each month, including breakout hits for dv4d and ThxSoMch. The tracks that emerge from BandLab depend on the interaction of human creators and AI. That holds true for some of the companies focusing on functional audio as well.