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- 16 Oct
AI Music News 16 OctA$AP Rocky says AI is a tool for pulling Kanye's vocals off 'Good Morning', and a prompt-only song is 'their thing'
- A$AP Rocky gave his take on AI in music to Complex's Antonio Johri in an interview published on October 14, 2026.
- His example of AI as a tool is splitting the stems of Kanye West's 'Good Morning' to take the vocals off and rap on the instrumental.
- On fully AI-generated songs made from a prompt, Rocky said 'I think that that's their thing' and asked who he is to say what's standard.
- 16 Oct
AI Music News 16 OctTIME names Deezer's AI music detector a Best Invention of 2026, after it kept 42 million AI tracks out of recommendations
- TIME named Deezer's AI music detection tool to its list of the Best Inventions of 2026 on October 15, 2026, one of 300 inventions judged on originality, efficacy, ambition and impact.
- Deezer says it detected and removed more than 42 million AI-generated tracks from its algorithmic and editorial recommendations between January 2025 and August 2026.
- Deezer now receives nearly 90,000 fully AI-generated tracks a day, up from roughly 10,000 a day when the detector went live in January 2025.
- 16 Oct
AI Music News 16 OctRIAA's 2026 Notorious Markets filing flags AI voice site Lalals for Taylor Swift and Drake voices made without consent
- The RIAA flagged Lalals, an AI voice site run by Lalals FZ-LLC in the United Arab Emirates, in its submission to USTR's 2026 Notorious Markets review, filed October 7, 2026.
- The filing says Lalals lets users make a vocal sound like Taylor Swift, Drake, Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars and other artists without their consent or authorization.
- The same section flags Anna's Archive, which announced in December 2025 that it had downloaded 86 million music files from Spotify.
- 16 Oct
Music Intelligence 16 OctNeutune CEO Lee Jong-pil says the tech to trace AI songs back to their sources is settled, and rights holder consent is the slow part
- Lee Jong-pil, CEO of Seoul startup Neutune, told The Korea Times on October 8, 2026 that the technology to trace which recordings an AI-generated song drew on is already settled.
- Lee says the slow part is getting consent from rights holders, and that AI needs an opt-in or blanket licensing framework, the way rights were renegotiated when music moved from CDs to downloads.
- Neutune's Music DNA splits a track into blocks of typically 2 to 4 or 8 to 16 bars and matches each one against a reference database of musical works.
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- 15 Oct
AI Music News 15 OctMarsha Blackburn posts an AI video of herself performing 'Not Like Us', 13 days after her NO FAKES Act push
- Sen. Marsha Blackburn's campaign account posted a 12-second AI video on October 13, 2026 that recreates Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl LIX show with her at the microphone.
- The clip passed 2.1 million views on X within 2 days, and many replies called it "AI slop".
- Blackburn said on October 14 that a county commissioner made the video, and called it "a funsies".
- 15 Oct
AI Music News 15 OctTaylor Swift files to trademark her voice in the UK, EU and Australia, and Australia accepted it in 6 days
- Taylor Swift's company, TAS Rights Management, filed 5 new trademark applications in the UK, the EU and Australia in October 2026.
- The UK, EU and Australian sound marks cover Swift saying "Hey, it's Taylor Swift", and the UK and EU filings add a stage photo.
- IP Australia accepted the Australian sound mark on October 12, 2026, 6 days after it was filed.
- 15 Oct
AI Music News 15 OctYouTube Music now labels AI-generated songs, using your distributor's tag or its own detection
- YouTube Music started rolling out labels on October 14, 2026 for songs created primarily using generative AI.
- The label sits on the player page, and tapping it opens a menu that explains how the track was made.
- Distributors and labels can tag each track as Fully Gen AI, Partly Gen AI or No Gen AI when they deliver it.
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Christopher Wieduwilt
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I've been a musician for over 25 years — metal bands in Germany, a solo singer-songwriter project that toured the US coast to coast, 500,000+ plays on Myspace. Then Myspace crashed and I lost my entire fanbase overnight.
After that I worked inside the music industry for years on the business side: managing artists, working for record labels, organising concerts and festivals. Watched the same mistakes repeat on newer platforms.
In 2023, generative music AI started reshaping everything: production, promotion, rights, revenue. I started covering AI in music production in August 2023, before Suno's public launch. 200+ stories since.
Today the site is read by 20,000 music professionals every month — Grammy-winning engineers, artists, and people inside Warner Music, AWAL, Believe, Songtradr, and UnitedMasters.
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Frequently asked
Frequently asked questions
What is AI music and how does it work?
My article on What is AI music covers this in full: how AI models are trained on audio, what generation tools can and can't do, and where the copyright questions stand.
Will AI replace musicians?
The short answer is no, but the longer answer matters more. Will AI replace musicians breaks down what AI can produce, what it can't, and where human artists still have ground that's hard to take.
Is AI music copyrighted?
Practice is shifting. The US Copyright Office has ruled that purely AI-generated output doesn't qualify for copyright protection. Is AI music copyrighted covers the current legal position, the active lawsuits, and what this means for artists using AI tools in their work.
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How do AI music tools compare to traditional music production software?
Traditional DAWs give you full control with a steep learning curve. AI tools give you fast results with less manual work, but trade off some control. Most professional workflows now combine both: AI tools for ideation, stem separation, and mastering; the DAW for arrangement and final production decisions.
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