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Recording Academy releases statement on if AI-made songs can win Grammy Awards.
In a recent interview, the CEO of the Recording Academy stated if music created by AI will be eligible to receive Grammy Awards in 2024.
The Recording Academy has modified its guidelines in advance of the 2024 edition of the prestigious award, acknowledging the impact of technology and the speed at which AI is developing in the modern world.
It was confirmed that any AI-produced music without any human involvement would not be eligible for an award nomination or win, but any song with both human and AI involvement would qualify for both.
The Recording Academy CEO clarified this in an interview with The Associated Press, where he revealed that, “Here’s the super easy, headline statement: AI, or music that contains AI-created elements is absolutely eligible for entry and for consideration for Grammy nomination. Period. What’s not going to happen is we are not going to give a Grammy or Grammy nomination to the AI portion.
If an AI or voice modeling program performs the lead vocal on a song, the track would be eligible in a songwriting category, for example, but not a performance category, because what is performing is not human creation. Conversely, if a song was sung by an actual human in the studio, and they did all the performing, but AI wrote the lyric or the track, the song would not be eligible in a composition or a songwriting category.
As long as the human is contributing in a more than de minimis amount, which to us means a meaningful way, they are and will always be considered for a nomination or a win.
“We don’t want to see technology replace human creativity. We want to make sure technology is enhancing, embellishing, or additive to human creativity. So that’s why we took this particular stand in this award cycle,” he added.