Artificial Intelligence has been gaining ground in our lives lately. In some cases in a very obvious way, with services like ChatGPT and Bing, but also in a more discreet way and for a longer time with technologies like DLSS, which already in its name (Deep Learning Super Sampling) suggests that it is based in AI. And at least from the current point of view, everything indicates that this presence will not stop growing in the short and medium term.

A field in which artificial intelligence can give chest, in this case never better said, it’s in the music. We have already seen some generative models that are capable of creating compositions that fit the given description. An example of this is MusicLM, a model created by Google that was announced last January and already has a waiting list since the Google I/O 2023 celebration.

Except, we can find other ways of use. Particularly controversial was, for example, a song in which a completely realistic artificial intelligence of the rapper Drake, who is particularly averse to this type of action, was used. At the opposite extreme is singer-songwriter Grimes, who invites anyone who wants to recreate their voice with AI to create songs… as long as they share in the profits from them, a pretty fair proposition. And more recently, we find Paul McCartney using AI to retrieve and play John Lennon’s original recording.

This brings us to the point where it makes sense to ask if AI could win any prizes for its compositions. As we can read on ZDNet, New Grammy Awards rules prevent artificial intelligence from winning awards. Specifically in these new rules that will govern future prices.”Only human creators can be considered for, nominated for, or win a Grammy Award«.

this of course does not rule out the use of artificial intelligence in cases such as the one cited by Paul McCartney, and we can assume that for compositions that “rely” on AI, it will not be a problem to create a rhythmic basis, the sound of some (or some) instrument, etc. The key will be that the composition in question is signed by a human being. How will it now be possible to tell if artificial intelligence has been used, and if so, what percentage of the work is the result of it?

In the end, it probably comes down to a matter of trust, of faith in the artist when he claims that the creation is his, and not the result of one or more generative artificial intelligence models. Of course we’re talking about a music industry that has historically shown that morality is not one of its strong points. So it’s very likely that sooner or later the Grammys and others like it will accept the candidacy of AI creations, knowing that whether or not they will be present more and more often.