Apple Music Adds Transparency Tags To Inform Users About What Content Is Made With AI – AfroTech

Apple Music users will now be informed when AI is used to generate content.

Billboard reported that Apple Music has updated its “delivery requirement” to ensure record labels and music distributors are transparent with users by adding “Transparency Tags” when AI is used for the “material portion” of content. It would cover the areas of artwork, track, composition, and music video. Apple Music views the requirements as a vital step toward transparency and the establishment of industry-wide best practices and policies that will benefit all parties, according to a newsletter it shared.

“Proper tagging of content is the first step in giving the music industry the data and tools needed to develop thoughtful policies around AI,” Apple said in the newsletter, according to Music Business Worldwide. “And we believe labels and distributors must take an active role in reporting when the content they deliver is created using AI.”

Apple Music’s four areas in which its Transparency Tags can be applied include artwork where AI was used “to generate a material portion of the artwork for an album.” It is noted that use applies to both static and motion graphics artwork. The next category is track, in which AI was used to generate a material portion of a sound recording.

Composition is tagged if “AI was used to generate a material portion of any music composition embodied in a track.” This applies to a portion of lyrics or other areas of a composition. Lastly, the music video tag applies when AI generates a portion of the visual elements whether applied to standalone videos or music videos that are packaged with albums.