Sony Group has presented an artificial intelligence tool designed to examine music created by AI. Its goal is to identify the degree to which a composition generated by algorithms incorporates or imitates material from existing works. This technology seeks to quantify the influence of previous works, a step toward possible copyright revenue distribution based on that detected contribution.
How fingerprinting and attribution technology works ??
The system analyzes AI-generated music to create a detailed fingerprint. It compares this fingerprint with a database of known compositions, looking for similarities in elements such as melody, harmony, or structure. It not only detects matches but also estimates a percentage contribution from each identified original work. This would theoretically allow a breakdown of influences to facilitate licensing agreements or royalty sharing.
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The irony is palpable: we need an artificial intelligence to monitor other artificial intelligences that perhaps inspire themselves too much. It's like putting a detective inside the mind of a robot composer to see which shelf it took the chords from. Now generative models will have to be more discreet in their musical borrowings, or this snitch AI will mark them in red. A world where machines accuse each other of copying.