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After feverish anticipation from fans, Spotify Wrapped is finally here, giving you a look at your most-listened-to music of 2024. Spotify's annual Wrapped feature reveals the songs and artists you've played the most over the year – regardless of whether they're cool or cringey. The viral marketing campaign presents each user's listening habits – including favourite songs and artists – as a slick slideshow lasting a few minutes. However, users have slammed Spotify Wrapped for being'boring' and'ugly' this year, while another angry commentator has complained that it'stinks of AI'. On X (Twitter), one user posted: 'spotify making us wait all that time and wrapped has the most boring visuals and slideshow in years.'

Monday night's'Garden of Time'-themed Met Gala was the place to be seen for the biggest names in music, film, and fashion -- even if some stars weren't really there. 'I intend to continue creating content that inspires and enchants fans, without disrespecting the artist's image,' Brazilian fan'Sali' told DailyMail.com of his work. Sali -- who also crafted an uncanny AI fake of Billie Eilish at last night's gala -- knows his work is'sparking debates about ethical AI use,' particularly in an election year that has already seen AI-faked Biden robocalls and AI images of Trump supporters. The finished product was so vivid that the fans even fooled Katy Perry's own mother Brazilian Katy Perry fan'Sali' told DailyMail.com he knows his work is'sparking debates about ethical AI use,' particularly in an election year. But this sincere and dedicated Perry fan hopes there will still be freedom for creating'positive and admirable content' with advanced AI But this sincere and dedicated Katy Perry fan hopes there will still be freedom for the creation of'positive and admirable content' with the shockingly advanced tech, as he explained to DailyMail.com the craftsman-like process he used to make his fakes.

Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry are among 200 high-profile artists calling for the'predatory' use of AI in the music industry to be stopped. In an open letter, several of the world's biggest stars have warned the tech'will set in motion a race to the bottom' if left unchecked. The use of AI to steal artists' voices, likeness, and sound is an'assault on human creativity', they said, and would'destroy the music ecosystem'. Issued by the Artists Rights Alliance (ARA), the letter calls for a ban on AI tools that undermine or replace human songwriters or their work. The move is part of an industry-wide push for better regulation of generative AI, the technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT and image generators like Midjourney.

A group of more than 200 high-profile musicians have signed an open letter calling for protections against the predatory use of artificial intelligence that mimics human artists' likenesses, voices and sound. The signatories span musical genres and eras, ranging from A-list stars such as Billie Eilish, J Balvin and Nicki Minaj to Rock and Roll Hall of Famers like Stevie Wonder and REM. The estates of Frank Sinatra and Bob Marley are also signatories. The letter, which was issued by the Artist Rights Alliance advocacy group, makes the broad demand that technology companies pledge not to develop AI tools that undermine or replace human songwriters and artists. "This assault on human creativity must be stopped. We must protect against the predatory use of AI to steal professional artists' voices and likenesses, violate creators' rights, and destroy the music ecosystem," the letter states.

In an age when artificial intelligence (AI) is touted to take over many jobs across various industries, songwriting would be the last thing coming to our minds -- after all, the best songs are about the human experience and how could a robot replicate that? However, a study by ticket marketplace TickPick analyzed whether AI could, in fact, replace songwriters and their findings might not please many. For the study, the AI software was trained just for five hours with lyrics across various genres, including pop, country, hip-hop and rock. Later, the AI-generated lyrics were then tested among 1,003 music fans via Amazon Mechanical Turk "with the intent of testing human ability to correctly identify AI-generated lyrics, as well as their opinion on creativity, emotionality and favorability of various lyrics presented to them." Models were trained between five and 12 hours after lyrics were taken from genius.com and grouped by genre.

There isn't this place in the world where teenagers come together to make music for each other. That place does not exist, and that's nuts! That thing needs to exist, and it will exist. And getting the AI working is the price of admission to build that thing…" Stephen Phillips, CEO of Australian startup Popgun, thinks that the early business models in this sector – AI-music as a replacement for production music, for example – are just a sliver of the ultimate potential for this technology. What's more, his thoughts on how AI music might disrupt the current music industry are less about people choosing to listen to AI-made music instead of human-made music, but rather about people (non-musicians) using AI tools to make music for one another. "Where's the'pop stars on training wheels' place where they make music for each other, release it and watch each other pretend to be pop stars, but then go on to become legitimate pop stars?