Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot, can now compose songs thanks to integration with next-generation AI music app Suno.
Users can enter messages into Copilot such as “Make a pop song about adventures with your family” and ask Suno, via a plug-in, to bring their musical ideas to life. From a single sentence, Suno can create complete songs — including lyrics, instrumentals and singing voices.
Copilot users can access the Suno integration by launching Microsoft Edge, visiting Copilot.Microsoft.com, signing in with their Microsoft account, and activating Add Suno or by clicking on the Suno logo that says “Make music with Suno”.
“We believe this collaboration will open up new horizons for creativity and fun, making music-making accessible to everyone,” says a Position was posted on the Microsoft Bing blog this morning. “This experience will begin rolling out to users today, ramping up over the coming weeks.”
Tech giants and startups are increasingly investing in AI-based music creation technology. In November, Google AI lab DeepMind and YouTube teamed up to release Lyria, a next-generation AI model for music, and Dream Track, a limited-access tool for creating AI tunes in YouTube Shorts. Meta has published quite a few of them experiments with AI music generation. Elsewhere, Stability AI and Riffusion have released platforms and apps for creating songs and effects from prompts.
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However, many of the ethical and legal issues surrounding AI-composed music have yet to be settled.
AI algorithms “learn” from existing music to produce similar effects, a fact that not all artists – or AI users, are comfortable with, especially in cases where the artists do not consent to an AI algorithm learning on their their music and not receive compensation for it. The AI audio jack of the same generation Stability AI I quit after saying the AI generation is “exploiting creators” and the Grammys have banned the song created entirely by artificial intelligence from consideration for awards.
Many AI companies argue that fair use excuses them from having to pay artists whose works are in the public domain — even if they are copyrighted. However, it is uncharted legal territory.
For its part, Suno does not disclose the source of its AI training data on its website — nor does it prevent users from entering prompts like “in the style [artist],” unlike some other AI music tools of the generation.
As the rights of use issued are fragmented in the courts, home tracks that use generational artificial intelligence to create familiar sounds that can pass as authentic – or at least close enough – have gone viral. Record labels were quick to flag them to streaming partners, citing copyright concerns — and have generally he was a winner. But the creators of AI tools of the generation simply migrated elsewhere, underground.
Clarity on the legal status of the generation’s music AI may arrive soon — if not from court rulings. A new one was introduced The Senate bill would provide artists, including musicians, with recourse when their digital likenesses, including their musical styles, have been used without their permission.
