AI-generated music has been in the spotlight lately, between a track that seemingly featured vocals from Drake and The Weeknd gaining traction to Spotify reportedly removing thousands of songs over concerns that people were using them to game the system. Now, Google is wading further into that space as the company is opening up access to its text-to-music AI, which is called MusicLM. Google detailed the system back in January when it published research on MusicLM. The generative AI landscape has shifted dramatically this year, however, and now Google feels comfortable enough to let the public try MusicLM. "We've been working with musicians like Dan Deacon and hosting workshops to see how this technology can empower the creative process," Google Research product manager Hema Manickavasagam and Google Labs product manager Kristin Yim wrote in a blog post.

In an experiment, the researchers discovered that one percent of the music the system produced directly copied the songs on which it was trained. This figure is high enough to make the business hesitant to release MusicLM in its current form, noted a TechCrunch report on Friday. The researchers highlighted the necessity for more future effort in addressing these hazards related with music generating and underlined the risk of potential creative content misappropriation linked with the use case. However, some people are still awwed by AI-audio bites released by the Google. "Impressed to see the quality of autogenerated vocals has gone way up! Sounds real but in a foreign language," wrote a Twitter user.