What Would It Take for an AI-Generated Song to Qualify for a Grammy?
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music As if there wasn’t already enough drama and confusion around AI and the music industry, the shadowy musician Ghostwriter’s song “Heart on My Sleeve” — which used generative AI to create fake verses that sound uncannily like Drake and the Weeknd — has spawned no small amount of confusion regarding the Grammys.
First, it seemed that the song wouldn’t qualify (and was removed from streaming services shortly after its release in April), then it apparently did, then it didn’t, then it finally did — but only after the artist had removed the fake Drake and Weeknd verses.
That solution did absolutely nothing to clarify the ball of confusion that AI, in all of its forms, has thrown into the music business.
Confusing the matter even more, Paul McCartney unexpectedly announced in June that AI had been used to improve the sound quality of a John Lennon demo that was used as the foundation of “the last Beatles song,” which will be coming out later this year.
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