Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, launched a suite of generative artificial intelligence (AI) models on Aug. 2 called AudioCraft for music creation from various inputs, according to a blog post.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Included in the suite of generative AI tools are MusicGen and AudioGen, which operate off of text-based inputs to create new audio, along with another called EnCodec that \u201callows for higher quality music generation with fewer artifacts.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the announcement, Meta mentioned that its MusicGen model was trained with music it owns or \u201cspecifically licensed.\u201d<\/p>\n
This comes amid major controversy surrounding training AI with copyrighted work across many artistic fields, including a lawsuit against Meta for copyright infringement during AI training. <\/p>\n
Meta has made MusicGen and AudioGen available in several sizes to the \u201cresearch community\u201d and developers. It said as it develops more advanced controls, it envisions the models to become useful to both amateurs and professionals in the music industry. <\/p>\n
\u201cWith even more controls, we think MusicGen can turn into a new type of instrument \u2014 just like synthesizers when they first appeared.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In a recent interview with Cointelegraph, the CEO of the Recording Academy, Harvey Mason Jr., also likened\u00a0the emergence of AI-generated music to the early days of synthesizers coming onto the music scene. <\/p>\n