Newshot First AI Music Awards Held in the US, Nominees Say Real Human Effort Lies Behind It
IT House, November 14 — According to Reuters, the first AI Music Awards ceremony in the United States was held on the 13th local time, honoring musicians who use AI in songwriting.
Although AI music is highly controversial and has even sparked lawsuits, it has still racked up millions of streams on streaming platforms and made its way onto music charts.
At the ceremony held in downtown 洛杉矶, the real musicians presenting and receiving awards argued that AI music should be regarded as a new genre of music. Creators not only need artistic talent, but also have to spend hours repeatedly tweaking prompts to get a satisfactory musical result.
Music producer 德雷克 · Murphy, presenting the Best AI Hip-Hop Song award, said: "In an era where everyone says AI is fake, the creators behind AI are real."
The night's three top awards — AI Artist of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year — all went to virtual singer Xania Monet. Xania Monet rose to fame with "How Was I Supposed to Know?"; Billboard said the R&B song was the first work by an AI artist to enter its radio airplay chart.
Xania Monet was created by Trisha "Nikki" Jones. Speaking on the red carpet before the ceremony, Jones explained that she wrote all the lyrics herself and then used AI to set them to music. "I think AI music is something new, and people need to get used to it gradually. I don't think it's going to disappear anytime soon."
The winners were chosen by a vote of AI artist members under the "Sonic Intelligence Academy," which has developed an AI music chart as well as a tool for identifying AI-generated songs.
According to IT House, many nominees said that although they have stories they want to express through music, they lack all the skills needed to turn those stories into songs. AI has helped them realize their music creation, and they hope the awards ceremony will show the public that real people also put their heart and soul into AI music.
Nominee J. Frequency said: "Contrary to what people generally think, a lot of the effort we put in behind the scenes is very hard work. Art is art, and I think this is just another form of artistic expression."
Related Articles
- Bloomberg estimate: AI contributed about a quarter of the UK's economic growth this year
- OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol takes part in live mouse brain surgery: three consecutive operations, positioning error halved
- OpenAI President Brockman: Most of the company's revenue currently comes from enterprise customers, and it will be ready to go public next year
- "Godfather of AI" Hinton: An AI Chernobyl could happen this year or next
- Anthropic is developing the FlashProve open-source system: using cryptography to prove which model an AI output came from
- IDC forecast: Enterprises will run 60% of AI workloads on open-source models by 2028