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Dream Track: Creating 30-second music tracks from a hum on YouTube with AI-generated Lyria watermarks and prompts
Google is testing new generative AI features for YouTube that’ll let people create music tracks using just a text prompt or a simple hummed tune. Dream Track is the first of its kind on the platform, designed to auto-generate short 30-second music tracks that are similar to famous artists. The feature can imitate nine different artists, who’ve chosen to collaborate with YouTube on its development. The new tools that can create music tracks from a hum were shown off by YouTube.
These new AI tools are powered by a music generation model called Lyria from Google’s DeepMind. In a post from Deep Mind, the company says that tracks can be modified and preserved with a SynthID watermark that is inaudible to the naked ear. So even if someone adds more noise to a track, compresses it into an MP3 file, or speeds it up, it should theoretically still be possible to tell that it contains AI-generated audio from Lyria.
The reveal of the new tools comes just days after YouTube announced new content guidelines for AI-generated deepfakes meant to protect people and, ultimately, the platform’s music industry partners.
To whip up a 30-second clip with Dream Track a creator just has to enter a prompt, such as “a ballad about how opposites attract, upbeat acoustic,” then select which artist the song should be styled on.
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