Musicians must embrace ‘unstoppable force’ of AI, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart urges

Producer says creatives need to own their intellectual property so they can license it to generative AI platformsThe Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart has said artificial intelligence is an “unstoppable force”, and musicians and other artists should bow to the inevitable and license their music to generative AI platforms.These platforms use artificial intelligence to analyse existing songs and tracks, using that knowledge to generate completely new ones as prompted by a user. For example, someone could ask the AI platform to generate a song about a boozy night out in the style of a Britpop band, and it would draw on songs with similar sounds and themes to create its own. Continue reading...