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How can AI be used in music generation?

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Overview

In this lesson students will explore AI created music and lyrics and compare it to human generated music. Students will analyze how well AI can mimic a genre/artist/song and what potential ethical controversies this could cause in our society. This lesson is used as a springboard for evaluating how AI can have both positive and negative effects and student’s ability to recognize both sides.

  • AI & Arts
  • 90 minutes
  • Created by Tim Ballert, CRAFT Co-Design Fellow 2023-2024
  • Adapted by Chris Mah
A robot wearing headphones pretending to be a DJ and spinning music

Digital Materials

Objectives

After this experience, students will be able to

  • Explain how AI can be used to create music 
  • Explain ethical issues raised by the use of AI in the generation of music

Questions explored

  • How can AI be used in music generation?
  • What ethical concerns does this raise?

Key Terms

Artificial Intelligence
The ability of computers to imitate human-like thinking, learning, and problem-solving.
Prompt
The initial context or instruction given to a model that sets the task or query for it to respond to or act upon. A prompt defines the scope of the response, serving as guidelines for generating outputs based on the given input.