The Recording Academy introduced quite a few modifications to the Grammy Awards, together with a rule that stipulates “solely human creators” can win the music business’s highest honor in a choice aimed toward the usage of synthetic intelligence in widespread music.
“A piece that incorporates no human authorship shouldn’t be eligible in any class,” they mentioned, underneath new “Synthetic Intelligence (AI) Protocols” launched Friday.
The rule was set following the semiannual Academy’s Board of Trustees assembly final month, the place it was decided that work that options parts of AI are eligible, so long as a human creator is answerable for a “significant” contribution to the music and/or lyrics.
“The human authorship element of the work submitted should be significant,” the brand new necessities learn partially.
The information arrives shortly after Paul McCartney introduced on Tuesday {that a} forthcoming “final Beatles document” had been composed utilizing synthetic intelligence by extracting John Lennon’s voice from an previous demo. On the time, he described AI as “sort of scary however thrilling,” including: “We’ll simply should see the place that leads.”
Along with the AI rule, the Recording Academy introduced that there have been swift modifications made to different classes: now, to win a nomination for the album of the yr class, a music creator has to account for no less than 20% of the work. That features all credited artists, featured artists, songwriters, producers, engineers, mixers and mastering engineers, and differs from a choice made in 2021, which allowed anybody who labored on the album to obtain a nomination.
The variety of these eligible within the “Massive 4” classes — greatest new artists in addition to album, track, and document of the yr — has been decreased from 10 to eight nominees.
Beforehand, to be nominated for the “greatest music movie” class, 50% of the documentary footage needed to be efficiency primarily based. The Recording Academy has lifted that requirement.
The change higher displays the evolution of the music doc format, typically a set of verité and archival footage, like Apple TV’s “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry”. Biopics and dramatic characteristic movies are nonetheless ineligible.
Additionally eligible: “Music-focused and particular person music movies that collectively create a visible album (if movies are packaged and entered collectively as one cohesive movie).”
The Recording Academy additionally introduced that one of the best improvised jazz solo award has been renamed greatest jazz efficiency, and greatest regional Mexican music album (together with Tejano) has been renamed greatest música Mexicana album (together with Tejano). To qualify within the latter class, 50% of the lyrics should be sung in Spanish, or the vast majority of the musical content material should replicate a standard model of Mexican music, like banda, norteño, corridos, gruperos, mariachi, rancheros, sierreño, jarocho, huasteco and huapango.
These modifications observe the addition of three new classes, introduced on Tuesday: greatest pop dance recording, greatest African music efficiency, and greatest different jazz album.
