BandLab Applied sciences is a robust music creation firm partly constructed on AI-driven tech.
The Singapore-headquartered firm, which has attracted over 60 million registered customers to this point, clearly depends on AI to help customers of its flagship music-making platform, BandLab.
It additionally runs a sister platform, SongStarter, which is predicated particularly on generative AI – enabling customers to lean on AI to create musical “concepts”, together with beats, melodies, and chord progressions, that may then be constructed upon through the principle BandLab platform.
Certainly, over the previous 12 months, BandLab says it’s seen 15X development within the quantity of music being created utilizing its AI instruments.
With all of this in thoughts, at present (August 8), BandLab CEO, Meng Ru Kuok, made an essential announcement: BandLab has turn out to be the primary music creation platform to formally assist the Human Artistry Marketing campaign (HAC).
HAC is a cross-industry alliance of over 150 organizations that’s conserving a watchful eye on generative AI’s potential each to enhance and to threaten the prosperity of human creators.
With members together with the RIAA (representing its main music firm associates) and SAG-AFTRA, HAC’s founding rules define how synthetic intelligence can be utilized ethically and responsibly to assist human creativity.
Meng Ru Kuok, CEO and Co-founder of BandLab Applied sciences, introduced BandLab’s assist for the Human Artistry Marketing campaign throughout his presentation at enterprise AI convention, Ai4, earlier at present (August 8).
“By turning into the primary music creation platform to assist the Human Artistry Marketing campaign, we emphasize our dedication to moral AI practices and making certain that expertise enriches the music {industry} and empowers new creators slightly than making new obstacles for them,” stated Meng Ru Kuok.
“By turning into the primary music creation platform to assist the Human Artistry Marketing campaign, we emphasize our dedication to moral AI practices and making certain that expertise enriches the music {industry} and empowers new creators.”
Meng Ru Kuok, BandLab
“BandLab is worked up to be on the forefront of this motion. Collectively, we are able to all forge a future the place AI empowers musicians with out compromising the essence of human artistry.”
BandLab was the one music creation firm at Ai4, a convention centered on uniting enterprise leaders and information practitioners throughout all industries to facilitate the accountable adoption of AI.
In a press launch, BandLab stated its assist for the Human Artistry Marketing campaign “reaffirms [our] dedication to an moral method to AI coaching and improvement that elevates each human expression and innovation”.
Dr. Moiya McTier, a spokesperson for the Human Artistry Marketing campaign, stated: “The Human Artistry Marketing campaign champions a future the place artwork and expertise reinforce each other and new improvements empower creators.
“We applaud BandLab Applied sciences’ management and sit up for further corporations committing to accountable AI practices that respect artists’ rights, names, photographs, likenesses, voices, and individuality.”
The Human Artistry Marketing campaign’s founding rules embody copyright-defending notions similar to:
- Use of copyrighted works by AI apps ought to require authorization and licensing;
- Authorities shouldn’t permit copyright or IP exemptions that might permit AI to “exploit creators with out permission or compensation”;
- Copyright ought to solely defend “the distinctive worth of human mental creativity”.
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