How can AI be used in music generation?

Originally published on August 19, 2024

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 & Music

90 minutes

Digital Materials

Teacher guide

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?

Keyterms

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.

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