Detection Of AI-Based Music Works Is Still A Challenge For AMI Awards

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JAKARTA - The issue of artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged into the global music industry, sparking heated debate about originality and human involvement in artwork.

In the context of the Indonesian Music Award (AMI) Awards, the issue of AI is a serious concern, which is currently still in the stage of in-depth discussion.

Syaharani, a jazz singer who also serves as the Charterization Council of the AMI Awards Foundation, admits that the detector for AI's fully produced work is not yet universally available.

However, according to him, ears that are used to listening to music, let alone analog recordings, can distinguish which pieces are artificial works.

"To what extent do you make use of AI? Well, this is the most difficult one, right?" said Syaharani, met in Senayan, Central Jakarta some time ago.

He explained that the complexity of AI's work really depends on the prompt or order given by the creator. If the prompt entered is very detailed, reaching thousands of words to dictating each song bar, then the process is almost as complicated as conventional music creation.

Syaharani stated that the General Chairperson of the AMI Foundation, Candra Darusman, had held intensive discussions since last year involving many young producers regarding this AI phenomenon.

In the discussion, two views emerged: there are those who agree to use AI as part of production, for example, savings in mixing or mastering, but the music is still made manually, and some use AI as a whole.

"This AI work is still a discussion, I think," he said.

He predicts that if the use of AI continues to rise, one day the AMI Awards may consider opening new categories, such as the 'Best AI work', although the raw music genres (such as jazz, pop, rock) will likely not be disrupted.

The crucial point underlined by Syaharani is the percentage of AI usage in a work and honesty from musicians.

"If you use it, it's only 10 percent, but you honestly use AI, with all 100 percent AI but diligently prompt, for example. It will be very difficult to find the difference," he explained.

Referring to the discussions that AMI Awards had held, Syaharani said that several countries such as the UK and the United States had announced or regulated the percentage of AI use which was considered a work worked on in the studio.

Therefore, the AMI Awards continues to wait for input from experts, musicians, and music journalists to formulate fences or patented boundaries in assessing works involving AI.