YouTube starts Music AI incubator with Universal Music as partner

YouTube is launching an incubator to work with artistes and musicians to discover using synthetic intelligence in music, in response to its blogpost on Monday.

The Alphabet unit has signed up Universal Music as its first associate for the Incubator, and can work with artistes together with Anitta, ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus, and Max Ricther.

“The incubator will help inform YouTube’s approach as we work with some of music’s most innovative artists, songwriters, and producers across the industry,” YouTube CEO Neal Mohan mentioned within the weblog.

The group “will help gather insights on generative AI experiments and research that are being developed at YouTube,” mentioned Mohan, including that YouTube would convey on board extra companions.

Generative AI is synthetic intelligence able to producing textual content, pictures, sounds and different information.

With the launch of ChatGPT late final yr, the expertise has been adopted in a variety of industries and use-cases at the same time as lawmakers deliberate guidelines that stop its misuse together with copyright infringement and spam.

YouTube mentioned it can additional put money into AI-powered expertise, together with evolving its copyright administration software, Content ID, to guard viewers and creators.

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