What happens when you let artificial intelligence make its own music?

I've got to go in, draping in my soul, oh yeah.

That was absolutely horrific. That was like a bizarre guns and roses.

AI music generators are spreading across the internet,

and they're getting better and better at producing their own songs.

Lose it self, place on the night.

Live it up!

Don't know bad!

That was actually really quite good.

That is a winner.

For some musicians, generative AI is the next frontier in music making.

That's kind of how I see these AI models.

I see them as a grand collective human accomplishment.

But for others, it could spell the end of music as we know it.

AI music is everywhere.

Of course, it puts people out of work.

It's going to make it incredibly hard to make any money at all in this industry.

You make that sound like an existential threat to the very practice of music itself. I think it is. incredibly hard to make any money at all in this industry.

You make that sound like an existential threat to the very practice of music itself.

I think it is.

I'm Ludovic Hunter Tilney, the FT's pop critic.

And in a two-part series of Techtonic, I'm investigating the spread of AI-generated music and asking what the impact might be on the music industry, from the studios

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