Apple Music is changing the way record labels and distributors flag AI-generated or AI-assisted content uploaded to the platform.
According to Music Business Worldwide, Apple sent a newsletter to industry partners on Wednesday explaining how it is rolling out a new set of metadata to promote transparency around how and when AI is used in music.
Metadata typically refers to fields such as song title, album title, genre, artist name, and other information that helps organize your files. Now, Apple Music is adding the option to include metadata tags that streamers can apply to flag when certain parts of a song contain AI-generated content. These tags allow streamers to distinguish between a song’s artwork, track (music), composition (lyrics), or music video.
This seems to be something that Apple Music users are interested in. A Reddit user posted a mockup of a similar functional concept a few days ago. However, the problem with this type of opt-in tagging is that it is up to the label or distributor to manually choose whether or not to flag the use of AI. Spotify is following a similar path.
Other music streaming platforms, such as Deezer, are attempting to use in-house AI detection tools to flag content, but it remains difficult to make these types of systems as accurate as possible.
TechCrunch has reached out to Apple for more information.
