Google gives Gemini the ability to make AI-generated music
While streaming services like Deezer and Apple Music are working to demonetise AI-generated music, Google boasts its "most advanced music generation model yet"
Despite fears around the prevalence of AI-generated music on streaming platforms, one of the world’s largest tech companies has now given its AI software the ability to make music.
Google is testing what it's calling “our most advanced music generation model yet”, Lyria 3, which is now available through its ‘AI assistant’, Gemini.
The beta allows users to create 30 seconds of music using images, text, and video prompts, which it then turns into “tracks complete with instrumentals, vocals and lyrics”.
Described as a “high-fidelity AI music generator” that allows you to “turn a specific feeling or even a photo into a custom soundtrack”, Lyria 3 is currently only accessible through the Gemini app for those over the age of 18.
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While it’s unclear what models Google has used to train its AI-generating music software, Lyria 3 is said to be able to mix “genres, moods and eras” of music.
Google says that all tracks generated in the Gemini app are “embedded with SynthID, our imperceptible watermark for identifying Google AI-generated content”.
“We are also giving you more tools to help identify AI content, broadening our verification capabilities to include audio,” the tech giant says. “Simply upload a file and ask if it was generated using Google AI, and Gemini will check for SynthID and use its own reasoning to return a response.”
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Earlier this month, Apple Music’s Vice President, Oliver Schusser, said the platform demonetised two billion “fraudulent” music streams worth around $17 million in royalties last year.
It followed Deezer’s recent announcement that it has demonetised 85% of all AI-generated tracks on its platform using an AI-detection tool, which it is now making commercially available for others to purchase.
The AI-detection tool can seek out music made using “prolific” generative models such as Suno and Udio, Deezer said, using it to detect the 60,000 AI-generated tracks it now receives each day.
Gemma Ross is Mixmag's Associate Digital Editor, follow her on X
