Overview

• Stability AI released Stable Audio 2.0, an advanced AI music generator capable of producing full-length songs, amid concerns from over 200 musicians including Billie Eilish and Nicki Minaj about AI undermining artists' rights.
• The new model allows users to create songs using their own audio samples or simple text prompts, and can generate music with differentiated intros, progressions, and outros.
• Musicians fear generative AI will devalue their work, prevent fair compensation, and exploit their voices and likenesses without consent.
• Stable Audio 2.0 is part of a broader trend of AI advancements, including developments in AI-powered search, warfare, and content generation.
• Despite the controversy, some see potential for AI in music for inspiration and background music, though it currently lacks the soul and complexity of human-created music.