Humans can no longer tell Al music from real thing: survey

It has become nearly impossible for people to tell the difference between music generated by artificial intelligence and that created by humans, according to a survey released last week.

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The polling firm Ipsos asked 9,000 people to listen to two clips of AI-generated music and one of human-made music in a survey conducted for France-based streaming platform Deezer. “Ninety-seven percent could not distinguish between music entirely generated by AI and human-created music,” said Deezer.

The survey came out as a country music song featuring a male singer’s voice generated by AI reached the top of the US charts for the first time this week. “Walk My Walk” by Breaking Rust - an artist widely reported by US media to be powered by generative AI technology - made it to the top spot on Billboard magazine’s chart ranking digital sales of country songs, according to data published Monday.