Apple Music adds optional labels for AI songs and visuals
TL;DR
Apple Music introduces voluntary 'Transparency Tags' for artists and labels to label AI-generated songs, compositions, artwork, and music videos, with no assumption of AI use for untagged works.
Apple is asking artists and record labels on its music streaming platform to voluntarily label songs that were made using AI. The new "Transparency Tags" metadata system for Apple Music was announced in a newsletter to industry partners yesterday, according to Music Business Worldwide, and covers four categories, including track, composition, artwork, and music videos.
The track tag should be applied when "a material portion of a sound recording" has been generated by AI tools, while the composition tag covers other AI-generated compositional elements, such as song lyrics. The artwork tag applies to static or moving graphics, but only at th …