Joshua Lukose
Date: 7/5/2025
In the near future, the billboard hit might not even have a human behind it. That’s the reality behind AI-powered music, your favorite song in the future could be made not by a person, but a machine. As AI grows more advanced, it’s not just generating text and images, it’s starting to compose music. From pop to rap to jazz, AI models like Suno, Udio, and Google’s MusicLM can now create songs in mere seconds. This raises an important question: are we witnessing a revolution in music, or the beginning of its decline? AI-generated music revolutionizes how we compose and consume sound, but it also challenges our authenticity and artistic values.
Tools like the aforementioned models are able to make music from just a prompt. For example, if a user were to input the prompt “sad indie song about leaving home,” any one of these models would be able to create the lyrics, melodies, and even the vocals in just seconds. Furthermore, a lot of these AI-generated songs are indistinguishable from human-made ones. Any kind of music can be made using these tools, and with incredible speed, opening doors for the mass production of music through AI. These AI-generated songs could even mimic popular artists, such as Drake or The Weeknd, and create songs in their style.
Tools like these come with numerous benefits, such as how music creation would be more accessible. With the use of these models, people wouldn’t need physical instruments or any vocal talent, anybody would be able to make music. Artists and producers could also use AI for inspiration and background scores, which could streamline the process of putting out music. Ai, when used as a tool, could provide many benefits in the music industry, like Auto-Tune and drum machines have in recent years.
Despite the possible benefits of AI-generated music, there are also many concerns about its use. For one, copyright on these songs would be very hard to draw a line for. It could be argued that ownership of the song belongs to the person who inputted the prompt, or the company that created the AI model, or even the individual whose vocals the AI was trained on. Additionally, questions of authenticity arise. If a song was written and produced by an AI model, does it truly express emotion? Does it have the same soul that human-made songs have?
AI isn’t just helping artists, but rather, it’s starting to be the artist. With the rise of fully AI-generated songs and vocals, the music industry is going into uncharted territory. Some people may not care how a song was created as long as it’s enjoyable to listen to. But for others, music is about the human experience, something a machine can’t capture. At the same time, AI could just be a powerful tool used by artists, similar to ones used now such as Auto-Tune. The challenge isn’t stopping AI music, but rather, it’s shaping how AI is used. As the lines between human and machine blur, we’ll have to choose what matters more.