OUR STANCE ON AI AND MUSIC

4 Mar 2024
In our fast-paced, ever-changing world, keeping track of artificial intelligence and its integration into every industry is complex. Especially in creative industries, clients and users want to know the origins of the product they’re paying for. Below, we set out our current stance on AI in our business.

Our central tenets include quality and authenticity. We have always championed the artistic process and work with talented artists worldwide and across genres to reach those goals. Despite the pervasiveness of Generative AI in the creative process, we’re proud to create human-generative music only.

We work with our artists, composers, and musicians to ensure that every piece of music is truly authentic, original, and of the highest quality. This hands-on, human production process lets us reassure our clients and partners of every song’s credibility. We provide rights assurance with our human-generated, cleared catalogue.

The music on our website is created by people, drawing on their experiences. This is what makes each song special and unique. We firmly believe that technology cannot capture the feelings and depth of the human experience essential to imparting the proper emotion through music.

However, we use AI as a tool on our website to help our clients by improving their experience of sourcing and licensing music. Our Find Similar AI tool allows users to find one of our tracks that sounds like something else. Paste a link from YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, or any other platform to our site; then you’ll see a list of similar-sounding tracks from our library.

We also use AI to help us accurately tag keys, BPM and whether a version contains vocals, which allows users to maximize their searches and find exactly what they’re looking for. We also have an AI-powered chatbot called WomBot on our website, which helps users answer questions ranging from prompts like “What is the email address for the UK office?” to “Help me find a pop song with female vocals and a strong synth part.”

AI is an inescapable part of life, and at West One Music, we believe in embracing new technology. However, we believe in discerning how and where to integrate this new technology into the creative process. We will always advocate for the humanity of the music-writing process, and as such, our music will always be created by our talented roster of composers and artists.

We look forward to creating exceptional, original music for our clients.

Read our recent blog post for further reading on the current state of Generative AI in the global music industry.

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