Music industry fends off flood of AI music 'stealing' the charts

Artificial intelligence is stepping into the music industry as artists, producers and songwriters fight to keep the human soul on the airwaves.

According to Deezer, a music streaming app, AI-generated music accounts for about 44% of daily music downloads.

Last year, after riding the momentum of two popular songs called "Walk My Walk" and "Livin’ On Borrowed Time," the AI-generated band Breaking Rust debuted at number nine on the Emerging Artists chart.

Unlike a real band, Nashville-based country music artist Ben Gallaher said fake AI bands cannot compete with live entertainment.

"I'm a live guy, so you can't take an AI band and go see the show because there is no in-person band," Gallaher said.

ROBOT SMASHES USAIN BOLT'S LEGENDARY SPRINT MARK THEN SLAMS INTO WALL Gallaher has been playing the guitar since he was six years old.

He said there's nothing AI can do to take all those years of experience away.

"AI can't replace the human heart," Gallaher said.

"Nashville's a special place.

There's no place like it in the world musically, and it's always been that way.

AI is not taking that away." Writing music with AI is a slippery slope, but using it to streamline business operations and hammer down a tour schedule is something Gallaher supports.

"If AI writes a line, you can't then use that line and say you wrote it," Gallaher said.

"We can use AI to help find certain venues based on the demographics of where people are listening to the music.

That's an amazing tool." The recording studio is one of the places where AI is used to refine workflow in the early stages of song creation.