Apple Music is changing the way record labels and distributors can flag AI-generated or AI-assisted content when they upload it to the platform.
According to Music Business Worldwide, Apple sent out a newsletter to industry partners on Wednesday outlining how it will roll out a new set of metadata to increase transparency about how and when AI is used in music.
Metadata typically refers to fields such as song title, album title, genre, artist name, and other information that helps you organize your files. Apple Music now adds the option to include metadata tags that distributors can use to flag when AI-generated content relates to specific aspects of a song. These tags allow distributors to distinguish between a song’s artwork, track (music), composition (lyrics), or music video.
This appears to be of interest to Apple Music users. A Reddit user posted a mockup of a similar feature concept just a few days ago. However, the problem with this kind of opt-in tagging is that the label or distributor manually selects the flag for AI use. Spotify is following a similar path.
Other music streaming platforms like Deezer are attempting to flag content using internal AI detection tools, but making this kind of system as accurate as possible is still a challenge.
TechCrunch has reached out to Apple for more information.
