{"id":4428,"date":"2026-11-14T16:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T11:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2026-11-14T16:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T11:03:51","slug":"new-awards-show-celebrates-ai-music-and-its-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4428","title":{"rendered":"New awards show celebrates AI music and its creators"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And the award goes to \u2026 AI music. The first \u200bAI Music Awards ceremony in the US on Friday celebrated the people who created songs at least \u200cpartly with AI, a field that has sparked criticism and lawsuits while also gaining millions of streams and landing on music charts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At Friday\u2019s event in downtown Los Angeles, human presenters and winners argued that artificial intelligence-created music should be viewed as part of a \u200bnew genre that requires real-life artistry as well as hours of prompting to get the right sound.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a \u200bworld where everybody calls AI fake, the human behind it is real,\u201d said music producer \u2060Drake Murphy as he presented the award for best AI hip-hop song.<\/p>\n

The night\u2019s top awards of AI artist, song \u200band album of the year went to Xania Monet, an AI-generated avatar known for \u201cHow Was I Supposed to Know?<\/em>\u201d Billboard \u200bsaid the R&B song was the first by an AI-based act to earn a spot on one of its radio charts.<\/p>\n

Monet was created by Telisha \u201cNikki\u201d Jones, who said she wrote all of the lyrics and then set them to music with the help of AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cI \u200bjust feel like AI music is a new thing that people just have to get used to,\u201d Jones said \u200bon the red carpet before the ceremony. \u201cI don\u2019t see it going anywhere anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

AI artists who are members of the Sonic Intelligence \u200cAcademy, \u2060a company that created AI music charts and tools to identify songs made with AI, chose the winners.<\/p>\n

<\/a>AI as a creative tool<\/strong><\/h3>\n

While the presence of AI in music-making can be traced back to the 1950s, groundbreaking advances in generative AI, with robots now making music as digital pop stars, have divided opinions in the industry.<\/p>\n

Record \u200blabels have sued AI companies<\/u><\/a> including \u200bAnthropic and OpenAI, arguing that \u2060they are illegally using copyrighted works to train their models. The Elvis Presley estate also filed a lawsuit<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The companies have said they are protected by the \u201cfair use\u201d doctrine in US \u200bcopyright law that allows unlicensed use in some cases.<\/p>\n

Musicians worry that AI-generated music blocks \u200bhuman artists from \u2060gaining traction and takes work from producers, singers, engineers and songwriters.<\/p>\n

Many of Friday\u2019s nominees said they had stories to tell but did not have all of the skills needed to put them to music.<\/p>\n

They said AI was a tool that \u2060helped bring \u200bthe music to life and they hoped the awards would show people \u200bthere are humans behind AI music.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of things we do behind the scenes is hard work, contrary to popular belief,\u201c said nominee J. \u200bFrequency. \u201cArt is art, and I think this is just another expression of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And the award goes to \u2026 AI music. The first \u200bAI Music Awards ceremony in the US on Friday celebrated the people who created songs at least \u200cpartly with AI, a field that has sparked criticism and lawsuits while also gaining millions of streams and landing on music charts. At Friday\u2019s event in downtown Los Angeles, human presenters and winners argued that artificial intelligence-created music should be viewed as part of a \u200bnew genre that requires real-life artistry as well as hours of prompting to get the right sound. \u201cIn…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}