Artificial Intelligence Archives - Music Ally

TikTok tests AI-likeness detection as Patreon blocks AI crawlers

Stuart Dredge — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0000

The torrent of AI-generated content is giving digital services some challenges to solve, especially as rightsholders and public figures get hotter on infringement of likeness rights.

AI’s new USB port: what the MCP standard means for the music industry

Stuart Dredge — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:00:00 +0000

GenAI music and all the arguments and lawsuits around it continues to dominate media coverage of AI’s impact on the music industry. But below all that, people and companies are figuring out how other kinds of AI models and tools can help them in their work.

Laylo’s UGC Agent gathers clips from fans’ Instagram stories

Stuart Dredge — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0000

Last month we wrote about fan-data firm Laylo’s new AI Ticket Sales Agent, which automated the process of reconnecting with fans who’d RSVP’d or clicked on a link.

Lorde speaks out against Spotify’s ‘About the Song’ feature

Stuart Dredge — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0000

Clearly relishing her freedom as an independent artist, Lorde has been speaking out about technology issues lately: witness her well-timed takedown of Meta’s AI glasses at a recent festival – which was sponsored by its smart-specs partner Ray-Ban..

Suno adds iMessage… but a hack may have revealed its training data

Stuart Dredge — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0000

AI-music firm Suno’s big announcement yesterday was a new integration with Apple’s iMessage app, but it was rather undercut by an investigative report claiming to answer the longstanding question of what it trained its model on.

Genotone unveils ‘Proof of Human’ initiative for AI music

Stuart Dredge — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0000

Last week, a group of music-industry bodies published proposals for a two-badge system to label music that’s wholly AI-generated or AI-assisted. Humans disclosing this information are key to the system… but how will *they* be verified?

Acquisitions Watch: BandLab Technologies snaps up Aoide and Too Lost buys Gyro·Group

Stuart Dredge — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0000

The two latest music-industry acquisitions cover different areas: one an extension of AI-assisted music-making, and the other an expansion into Australasia and Asia-Pacific.

Australian government backs creative industries in AI-training battles

Sonia Chien — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:38:42 +0000

Addressing the University of Sydney yesterday in a speech on ‘AI in Australia’s interests’, prime minister Anthony Albanese announced that the unbounded use of creative works for the purposes of AI training will not be permitted there.

Spotify gets more conversational with its user interface

Stuart Dredge — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0000

Given everything going on around AI right now, it’s hardly a neck-sticking-out prediction to say that conversation is going to be the next big leap for the way people use music services. Spotify’s latest announcement offers more evidence.

Mogul links with Claude and ChatGPT through its new MCP server

Stuart Dredge — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0000

We last wrote about royalty-management startup Mogul in February when it raised a $5m funding round. Now it has become the latest company to launch a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to play nicely with AI assistants.

Björn Ulvaeus on AI: ‘Tracing the output was always the wrong question’

Stuart Dredge — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0000

Cisac president and ABBA co-founder Björn Ulvaeus has given his latest – and most detailed – speech about AI and creators, at the United Nations’ AI for Good Summit in Geneva.

Ivors Academy presses Irish government to protect songwriters

Stuart Dredge — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0000

The debates about AI and musicians rumble on in parliaments around the world – including Ireland this week. Tomorrow (14 July) a motion filed by politician Aengus Ó Snodaigh will be debated in the country’s Dáil (assembly).

Meta axes Muse Image feature referencing Instagram accounts

Stuart Dredge — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0000

Meta unveiled its new image-generating AI tool, Muse Image, last week – complete with the ability to “reference” other people’s public Instagram accounts in prompts by @-mentioning them.

DiMA, Suno and Deezer respond to AI-music labelling proposal

Stuart Dredge — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:30:00 +0000

On Friday we reported on the announcement by a group of music-industry bodies of a new system for labelling wholly AI-generated music as well as ‘AI-assisted’ music. Since then, there have been some more responses from involved parties.

Music industry bodies reveal plans for AI-music labelling system

Stuart Dredge — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:52:16 +0000

Transparency is a big topic in AI music, and not just in terms of rightsholders demanding AI-music companies reveal what they trained their models on.