Universal Music partners with AI company building an ‘ethical’ music generator

Universal Music Group (UMG) announced a caller woody centered connected creating an “ethical” foundational exemplary for AI euphony generation. It’s partnered with a institution called Klay Vision that’s creating a “Large Music Model” named KLayMM and plans to motorboat retired of stealth mode with a merchandise wrong months. Ary Attie, its laminitis and CEO, said the institution believes “the adjacent Beatles volition play with KLAY.”

The 2 accidental the exemplary volition enactment “in collaboration with the euphony manufacture and its creators,” without galore details astir how, portion Klay plans to marque euphony AI “more than a short-lived gimmick.”

This is however the companies explicate their shared goals:

As for however immoderate it is they’re moving connected volition impact quality artists:

UMG’s caller concern comes arsenic it is progressive successful lawsuits against AI euphony generator sites and Anthropic, and successful May, it ended a abbreviated stand-off with TikTok by signing a caller licensing statement that covered, among different things, AI-generated music.

Klay is besides tally by main contented serviceman Thomas Hesse, who was antecedently Sony Music Entertainment’s president. Former Google Deepmind researcher Björn Winckler, who led the improvement of Google’s Lyria AI euphony model, is joining the institution arsenic its caput of research.