Folgueira said Deezer also uses its tool to root out "fake artists" - pseudonymous musicians with no discernible online presence, who create hundreds of songs (typically overly-simple mood music) to game the royalty payment system. Spotify has been routinely accused of hosting such artists.

He says songwriters face "a battle" to defend work against the growing use of artificial intelligence.

Grimes has welcomed musicians to create new songs with her voice using Artificial Intelligence, saying she would split 50% of royalties on any successful AI-generated track that included her voice. The Canadian singer, whose real name is Claire Boucher, tweeted that it was the "same deal as I would with any artist I collab[orate] with. Feel free to use my voice without penalty," she tweeted. I'll split 50% royalties on any successful AI generated song that uses my voice. Feel free to use my voice without penalty.

"I have songwriting credits…even though I don't know how to write a song." 1 The speaker of this statement is not a musician and has no musical training. He helped create an app called Endel, which is self-described as "a cross-platform audio ecosystem." 2 Endel is part of a larger part of the current hot debate over works of art being "created" by computers using programs employing "artificially intelligent" modes of computer learning, or AI for short. "Dmitry Evgrafov, Endel's composer and head of sound design, says all 600 tracks were made'with a click of a button.' There was minimal human involvement outside of chopping up the audio and mastering it for streaming. Endel even hired a third-party company to write the track titles." 3 What makes this notable is that Endel has a record deal with Warner Bros. Music. 4 "Five Endel albums have already been released, and 15 more are coming this year -- all of which will be generated by code. In the future, Endel will be able to make infinite ambient tracks." 5 But didn't the Endel engineers create the software in question?

Google's latest machine-learning project, Magenta, has released its first piece of generated art – a simple 90-second long, four-note piano melody, which was created through a trained neural network. Drums and orchestra were added after the AI's algorithm, but added for emphasis after the fact. The Magenta programme has been designed to use Google's machine-learning systems to create art and music. Magenta wants to advance the state of machine-generated art and build a community of artists around it in the long run. The programme will use Google's open-source artificial intelligence platform TensorFlow to research machine-learning in artistic creation.