Sunnyy Vyas, Arjun Kanungo, Charlie Wall-Andrews and Ankit Desai

This is where Charlie Wall-Andrews, professor of creative industries, Toronto Metropolitan University, believes music educators have a role to play. She shares, “Artistes are going to have different preferences in terms of how they use or may not use AI towards the creation of art. Regardless, AI is here to stay. But what is important is an ethical and transparent use of the technology.” The artiste’s perspective will be put forth by composer Arjun Kanungo, and founder of Snafu Records, Ankit Desai.

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Generative AI, by principle, depends on existing data i.e songs or music to create new iterations. This has led to debates about licensing and creative copyright. Like the recently recreated vocals of the late John Lennon on the latest track by The Beatles, Now and Then. The track featured the late singer’s voice, cleaned up and extracted and later integrated with works of his former bandmates.

While some might consider it a reduction of the artist to mere extraction, Desai remarks that it is the end of one more barrier. “You are now only limited by your imagination, not by the studio, instruments or artistes you have access to. It heightens the individuality of the creator,” he says.

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But any generative AI depends on existing musical data. “The trouble is that AI does not have the consciousness to ask data owners whether they can train themselves off this data. This is an essential part of the process that needs to be talked about,” says Sunnyy Vyas, lead, Wynk Studio Community Business and Content, who will bring an industry perspective to the debate.

Wall-Andrews agrees. She says, “Policy makers need to move quickly on this, unfortunately, innovation always moves faster than government regulation policies. Key hurdles will be implementing policies, and developing infrastructure in which people are able to comply with such policies.”

Consensus on such decisions are hard to arrive at. While some studios and labels have their own licensing regulations, industries across the world are yet to come to terms. “The key is to find consensus among ourselves. The music industry requires multiple stakeholders to step in and form a consensus, and so far, that has been wanting,” Pereira notes. Hopefully, the conversation is the first step to the process.

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