ChatGPT and Co: Is AI a threat to the music industry?

The rapid progress in the field of artificial intelligence also creates legally difficult cases in music. Some people are already seeing a new Napster moment. But the development could even play into the hands of the music industry.

Liam Gallagher likes it: “I sound mega,” he replied recently on Twitter when asked what he thought of AISIS. AISIS is a project of the small British band Breezer and it is no accident that it is reminiscent of the name of Oasis, the former band of Liam and brother Noel Gallagher. Using artificial intelligence (hence AISIS), Breezer had mimicked Gallagher’s voice and had them sing songs they had written.

The supposed Oasis reunion is just one instance – and by no means the first – of artificial intelligence (AI) being used in this way. There are countless other examples on the YouTube video platform that sound better and worse: an AI Lana Del Rey covers Adele, Kanye West tries his hand at Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida”, or Freddy Mercury sings “Thriller” by Michael Jackson.