You’ll soon know if your favorite new track on Apple Music was generated by AI
Tired of AI-generated content? Well, Apple is making changes to its Apple Music service to let you know when you're listening to a track "Made With AI."
Tired of AI-generated content? Well, Apple is making changes to its Apple Music service to let you know when you're listening to a track "Made With AI." This label will be mandatory for all content that involves the use of generative AI.
Apple is slapping the "Made with AI" label on AI-generated songs
New Made with AI label will soon start appearing in Apple Music. | Image by PhoneArena
Variety reports, that Apple said that record labels and distributors will be required to tag songs in which “a material portion of the content” was created using AI. There's no timeline for when this change will happen, although "later this year" is mentioned, so we should start seeing the label before 2026 rolls off.
As we implement Made With AI Labels, content providers will be important partners. They are best positioned to know how their content was created, and the AI Transparency Tags that should be used.
- Apple Music
Earlier this year, Apple Music added support for Transparency Tags. These allowed AI-generated tracks to be tagged accordingly but ultimately relied on goodwill. This new change is a more formal requirement for AI labeling.
Do we need labels for AI-generated music?
AI-generated music is on the rise
Suno made making music a walk in the park. | Image by Suno
AI has angered a lot of creative industries, and music is no exception. We saw several lawsuits between AI companies and big record labels for illegitimate training of these AI models on copyrighted music. The rise of tools such as Suno and Udio made creating music effortless, and many charts were flooded with AI-generated content.
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Other streaming services are also reacting to this. Spotify, for example, decided to label the profiles of artists who appear to be AI-generated as “AI Personas," and Tidal also joined the club with AI labels and bans from accruing royalties for AI-generated tracks.
You should know that every label in the world is delivering AI, [even if] they might not know about it. They themselves also need to develop tools to understand [the scope of AI use].
- Apple Music vice president Oliver Schusser before Billboard
The scope of this AI-generated music is at epidemic levels. Apple Music vice president Oliver Schusser told Billboard that “more than a third” of the tracks uploaded to the platform were “100% AI."
According to Schusser, every music label in the world is spreading AI tracks, and most of them have no idea.
Labeling AI-generated tracks is the right way to do it
Spotify already labels AI-generated music. | Image by Spotify
As a gigging musician, I'm 100% behind this move. AI is not doing the industry a favor, and the danger is many-fold. First we have all the hard-working musicians that can't score a gig now, because all non-live music has been outsourced to AI.
Second, the music instrument industry starts to suffer — teenagers don't dream of becoming the next Steve Vai anymore. They just install Suno and become one. No hundreds of hours of tedious guitar practice in the garage, no savings from lunch money to buy a guitar.
And third and more importantly - these AI models were trained on music created by living, breathing humans. The AI can only offer interpretations and variations and put bits and pieces together but never create something new and unique.
The least we can do is demand for these AI-generated or altered tracks to be properly labeled. I feel it's getting personal at this point, so I'll leave it at that. What do you think about this? Should record labels mark AI-generated content, or does it really not matter?
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