JAKARTA - Artificial intelligence or AI-made music is starting to change from a technology experiment into a new business field in China. China Daily quoted Friday, March 27, reported that a young programmer in Chengdu sold the rights to an AI-made song he created in just about two hours for 50,000 yuan or about 7,238 US dollars to a company.
A programmer named Yang Ping, 28, made a song titled Seven-Day Lover with the help of an AI tool. The song imitates the style of singer Jay Chou's music and quickly sucks in millions of views. This case shows that the production, commercialization, and monetization of AI content is now moving very fast.
According to China Daily, Yang admitted that he had earned more than 200,000 yuan in the last nine months just from the technical and content capabilities he created. He considers the low barriers to creating and selling AI music to contribute to the explosion in popularity of this trend.
This development is also visible at the industry level. At the Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing, Chinese technology company Kunlun Tech showcased its latest music model, Mureka. The previous version was said to have topped the global rankings for vocal and instrumental categories, surpassing international AI musical instruments such as Suno.
Kunlun Tech CEO Fang Han said his company's AI music model is updated every three months. The speed, according to him, shows the strength of the engineering capacity and the breadth of the application space of AI in China.
China Daily also wrote that the commercialization of AI music is getting more aggressive. An AI singer named Yuri gained millions of views through her debut music video, then was appointed as a creative officer for digital exploration by The North Face. Collaborations also extend to the technology, gaming, and automotive sectors.
The market is also growing. Grand View Research estimates that the global market for generative AI music will reach 2.8 billion US dollars by 2030, with Asia-Pacific - led by China - being the fastest growing region. Meanwhile, QYResearch estimates that the market for AI music software in China will approach 600 million US dollars by 2032.
However, the pace of this business is not free from problems. Professor of the Central Conservatory of Music Huang Zongquan assessed that AI has entered the entire music industry chain, from creation to consumption, and opened up new business models. On the other hand, lawyer Liu Zhijun emphasized that copyright disputes remain a major challenge, ranging from the legality of training data to who owns the rights to songs produced by AI.
Behind the growth of AI music in China is still overshadowed by the issue of copyright that has not been completed.
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