{"id":208221,"date":"2026-01-30T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/grammys-ai-rules-aim-to-keep-music-human-but-large-gray-area-leaves-questions-about-authenticity-and-authorship\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:45:08","slug":"grammys-ai-rules-aim-to-keep-music-human-but-large-gray-area-leaves-questions-about-authenticity-and-authorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/grammys-ai-rules-aim-to-keep-music-human-but-large-gray-area-leaves-questions-about-authenticity-and-authorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammys\u2019 AI rules aim to keep music human, but large gray area leaves questions about authenticity and authorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grammys\u2019 AI rules aim to keep music human, but large gray area leaves questions about authenticity and authorship<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/theconversation.com\/grammys-ai-rules-aim-to-keep-music-human-but-large-gray-area-leaves-questions-about-authenticity-and-authorship-274504<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-01-30 08:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n

At its best, artificial intelligence can assist people in analyzing data, automating tasks and developing solutions to big problems: fighting cancer, hunger, poverty and climate change. At its worst, AI can assist people in exploiting other humans, damaging the environment, taking away jobs and eventually making ourselves lazy and less innovative.<\/p>\n

Likewise, AI is both a boon and a bane for the music industry. As a recording engineer and professor of music technology and production, I see a large gray area in between.<\/p>\n

The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has taken steps to address AI in recognizing contributions and protecting creators. Specifically, the academy says, only humans are eligible for a Grammy Award: \u201cA work that contains no human authorship is not eligible in any categories.\u201d <\/p>\n

The academy says that the human component must be meaningful and significant to the work submitted for consideration. Right now, that means that it\u2019s OK for me to use what\u2019s marketed as an AI feature in a software product to standardize volume levels or organize a large group of files in my sample library. These tools help me to work faster in my digital audio workstation. <\/p>\n

However, it is not OK in terms of Grammy consideration for me to use an AI music service to generate a song that combines the style of say, a popular male folk country artist \u2013 someone like Tyler Childers \u2013 and say, a popular female eclectic pop artist \u2013 someone like Lady Gaga \u2013 singing a duet about \u201cStar Trek.\u201d<\/p>\n