This week, UK songwriters’ organisation The Ivors Academy held its ‘Global Creators Summit’ – a one-day event focusing on AI technologies.
Music Ally was the media partner and our full coverage will appear shortly. But as a taster, the day also saw collecting society PRS for Music reveal some of the results of a recent survey of its members on AI and music.
1,409 of them responded, including 1,315 songwriters and composers and 55 publishers.
The survey found that 71% do not currently use AI for music-related activities, while for the 29% who do, its use is focused on tasks such as album artwork creation and mixing/mastering, rather than composition.
55% said they would or might use AI for music-related activities in the future, while 31% said they definitely would not.
Meanwhile, 74% are concerned about AI-generated music competing with human music, and 93% believe that creators deserve to be compensated if their music is used in AI-generated content. 89% believe AI tools should be transparent about how they generate AI works.
“There are absolutes among our members about how they want AI to be regulated,” said John Mottram, PRS for Music’s head of strategy, communications and public affairs, who presented the findings.
“They want to be able to decide when their works are used, they want to be able to control that decision and they want to be paid fairly.”
