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- 24 Aug
AI Music News 24 AugDr. Dre says he uses AI in the studio, and only people who struggle to create are scared of it
- Dr. Dre confirmed he uses AI in his production work in a New York Times interview published on August 23, 2026
- He described the people who see AI as a threat as the ones "who have trouble creating" and compared the backlash to early resistance against the drum machine
- Dre said he runs AI over finished work to hear what it does with it, which is a response check rather than generating a track from a prompt
- 24 Aug
AI Music News 24 AugThe AI song Bette Midler called cultural genocide is 'Celebrate Me' by IngaRose
- Bette Midler attacked an unnamed charting AI song in an Instagram post on August 21, 2026, ending it with the hashtag cultural genocide
- The track is "Celebrate Me" by IngaRose, a Suno-built act that topped the US and global iTunes charts on April 17, 2026
- IngaRose's own Instagram describes the songs as human-written lyrics with stems and arrangements refined using Suno, which is a narrower claim than fully generated
- 24 Aug
AI Music News 24 AugJimmy Iovine says there are 'a lot of closet AI producers', then names the least closeted one in music
- Jimmy Iovine said "I'm very pro-AI in music creation" and "I don't see the downside at all" in a New York Times interview published on August 23, 2026
- Iovine claimed there are "a lot of closet AI producers out there" and pointed to Timbaland as an example, with Dr. Dre agreeing that producers use AI without admitting it
- Timbaland has been a paid strategic advisor to Suno since October 2024 and launched the AI company Stage Zero in June 2025
- 24 Aug
AI Music News 24 AugThe Philippines-Korea Copyright Forum 2026 put metadata at the centre of the AI music payment problem
- IPOPHL, South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Copyright Protection Agency held the 2026 Philippines-Korea Copyright Forum in Bonifacio Global City on August 11, 2026
- Speakers put the payment failure on rights data, arguing that inaccurate metadata attached to mass AI uploads makes performance rights and royalty claims hard to establish
- Philippines Recorded Music Rights general manager Ace Acosta named royalty hijacking, search manipulation and revenue pool diversion as the effects on human creators
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- 24 Aug
AI Music News 24 AugSamori Coles has produced records for 30 years. Now he directs AI music videos too.
- Samori Coles spent 30 years as an audio engineer, producer, and songwriter, and still owns Lil' Drummaboy Recordings, his Philadelphia recording studio
- He started directing AI music videos, micro-dramas, and VFX work in 2024, and now works under the title generative AI director and producer
- He directed the video for "Love Notes" by Olivia B. Moore, a record that reached No. 1 on the SIQA Top 20 AI R&B Songs chart in March 2026
- 24 Aug
Tool News & Updates 24 AugAdobe opened Firefly's music, speech and sound effects generators to everyone
- Adobe moved Generate Music, Generate Speech and Generate Sound Effects out of limited release and into general availability on August 20, 2026
- Generate Music runs on the Firefly Music Model and outputs what Adobe calls universally licensed tracks cut to a video's length and mood
- Generate Speech runs on the Firefly Speech Model with ElevenLabs available as an alternative engine inside the same interface
- 24 Aug
Music Intelligence 24 Aug5 numbers that show Dr. Dre is right about AI in the studio
- Luminate found 18% of U.S. musicians use AI to edit or remix music, three times the 6% rate among non-musicians
- In Tracklib's 2024 producer survey, 73.9% of the producers using AI use it for stem separation and 3% use it to create entire songs
- Water & Music and Moises surveyed 1,525 musicians and found 21% of professionals spend $50 or more a month on AI tools, against 11% of hobbyists
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I'm Christopher Wieduwilt. Founder of The AI Musicpreneur.
Christopher Wieduwilt
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I've been a musician for over 25 years — metal bands in Germany, a solo singer-songwriter project that toured the US coast to coast, 500,000+ plays on Myspace. Then Myspace crashed and I lost my entire fanbase overnight.
After that I worked inside the music industry for years on the business side: managing artists, working for record labels, organising concerts and festivals. Watched the same mistakes repeat on newer platforms.
In 2023, generative music AI started reshaping everything: production, promotion, rights, revenue. I started covering AI in music production in August 2023, before Suno's public launch. 200+ stories since.
Today the site is read by 20,000 music professionals every month — Grammy-winning engineers, artists, and people inside Warner Music, AWAL, Believe, Songtradr, and UnitedMasters.
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Frequently asked
Frequently asked questions
What is AI music and how does it work?
My article on What is AI music covers this in full: how AI models are trained on audio, what generation tools can and can't do, and where the copyright questions stand.
Will AI replace musicians?
The short answer is no, but the longer answer matters more. Will AI replace musicians breaks down what AI can produce, what it can't, and where human artists still have ground that's hard to take.
Is AI music copyrighted?
Practice is shifting. The US Copyright Office has ruled that purely AI-generated output doesn't qualify for copyright protection. Is AI music copyrighted covers the current legal position, the active lawsuits, and what this means for artists using AI tools in their work.
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How do AI music tools compare to traditional music production software?
Traditional DAWs give you full control with a steep learning curve. AI tools give you fast results with less manual work, but trade off some control. Most professional workflows now combine both: AI tools for ideation, stem separation, and mastering; the DAW for arrangement and final production decisions.
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