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Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music::Audio created using Google DeepMind’s AI Lyria model will be watermarked with SynthID to let people identify its AI-generated origins after the fact.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People are listening to AI generated music? Someone on Bluesky put (paraphrased slightly) it best-

If they couldn't put time into creating it I'm not going to put time into listening to it.

[–] tahoe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I’d rather listen to some custom AI generated music than the same royalty free music over and over again.

In both cases they’re just meant to be used in videos and stuff like that, you’re not supposed to actually listen to them.

[–] interceder270@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fun fact: Steve1989MREInfo uses all of his original music for his videos.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A number of Youtubers do . . . and some of it's even good, lol. John at Plainly Difficult and Ahti at AT Restorations are two that use their own music that I can think of off the top of my head.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if being able to generate music will make people less interested in actually bothering to learn how to do it themselves. Having ai tool makes many things so much easier and you need to have only rudimentary understanding of the subject.

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, like most people don't realise but until about 1900 most piano music was played by humans, of course there were no pianists after the invention of the pianola with its perforated rolls of notes and mechanical keys.

It's sad, drums were things you hit with a stick once but Mr Theramin ensured you never see a drummer anymore, while Mr Moog effectively ended bass and rhythm guitars with the synthesizer....

It's a shame it would be fun to go see a four piece band performing live but that's impossible now no one plays instruments anymore.

People are never going to stop learning to play instruments, if anything they'll get inspired by using AI to make music and it'll get them interested in learning to play, they'll then use ai tools to help them learn and when they get to be truly skilled with their instrument they'll meet up with some awesomely talented friends to form a band which creates painfully boring and indulgent branded rock.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Audio created using Google DeepMind’s AI Lyria model, such as tracks made with YouTube’s new audio generation features, will be watermarked with SynthID to let people identify their AI-generated origins after the fact.

In a blog post, DeepMind said the watermark shouldn’t be detectable by the human ear and “doesn’t compromise the listening experience,” and added that it should still be detectable even if an audio track is compressed, sped up or down, or has extra noise added.

President Joe Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence, for example, calls for a new set of government-led standards for watermarking AI-generated content.

According to DeepMind, SynthID’s audio implementation works by “converting the audio wave into a two-dimensional visualization that shows how the spectrum of frequencies in a sound evolves over time.” It claims the approach is “unlike anything that exists today.”

The news that Google is embedding the watermarking feature into AI-generated audio comes just a few short months after the company released SynthID in beta for images created by Imagen on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.

The watermark is resistant to editing like cropping or resizing, although DeepMind cautioned that it’s not foolproof against “extreme image manipulations.”


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[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

it does this by converting the audio into a 2d visualisation that shows how the spectrum of frequencies evolves in a sound over time

Old school windows media player has entered the chat

Seriously fuck off with this jargon, it doesn’t explain anything

[–] Terminarchs@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's actually an accurate description of what is happening: an audio file turned into a 2d image with the x axis being time, the y axis being frequency and color being amplitude.

[–] RufusLoacker@feddit.it 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's literally a spectrograph

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Your mom's literally a spectrograph.