05 Dec 2017

AI Creates Black Metal Album

A five-track black metal album, titled, “Coditany of Timeness” has just been produced. The difference with this new piece of music is that it was created by an artificial intelligence.

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Created by feeding a 2011 album called Diotima by Krallice into a neural network, it is the result of a project of CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski. The songs were broken down int shorter chunks. The neural network was then asked to predict the next section of the track, before being told whether or not it was correct. This is a standard method for training an AI’s operation. Over three days as many as five million guesses were made as to how a black metal song should sound.

The album is available online at: https://dadabots.bandcamp.com/album/coditany-of-timeness 

This isn’t the first time an AI has been used in a creative field, with other forms of music being composed, visual artwork, writing stories and small articles and so on. Beyond the question of whether AI-created art can compare to the “human touch” the issue of authorship is front and centre of this debate, as an AI can not yet claim to invent or create something legally. The humans that own or design the system in question are still the key holders to copyright and IP, but ascertaining the exact protocol at this early stage is vital for smooth regulation.



References:   Futurism     DADABOTS

 


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