As ChatGPT sets the internet aflame, will AI write the lyrics of tomorrow's hits?

<p>Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide Podcast supported by <a href='https://www.volymusic.com/'>Voly Music</a>. On this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham speaks to AI expert, and the CEO of LyricStudio, Dr. Maya Ackerman.<br/><br/>------<br/><br/>Bloody Elon Musk. Not content with doing beastly things to Twitter (like, erm, marginally improving the user experience), he&apos;s also triggered the actual beginning of the actual end of the world. <br/><br/>Well, not <em>directly</em>. But Musk was one of the co-founders and funders of San Francisco-headquartered OpenAI, which is the progenitor of ChatGPT – the AI-powered online tool that can not only research and regurgitate online facts, but also weave that regurgitation in a variety of generated tones and styles. <br/><br/>Some tech experts are so impressed with ChatGPT, they say, in just a few more iterations, it will become a serious challenger to (and perhaps even surpass the usefulness of) Google, and turn the business of online search upside down. <br/><br/>(The next chapter in this sci-fi novel: ChatGPT gains sentience, turns our own long-trusted devices against us, and subjugates the human race. But that&apos;s probably still a few years away, so chill out, and, as Warren Zevon famously recommended, Enjoy every sandwich.)<br/><br/>The music industry is actually a little ahead of the curve on this topic. Because language-based &apos;generative AI&apos; platforms are <em>already</em> transforming this business in a meaningful way – in the world of lyric writing.<br/><br/>LyricStudio, owned by California-headquartered parent WaveAI, produces original lyrics for songwriters in a style that mimics their own. In this sense, it&apos;s &apos;assistive AI&apos; – a human companion, a muse. &quot;When it comes to curing writer&apos;s block, there is nothing as powerful as LyricStudio,&quot; its website boasts. <br/><br/>LyricStudio&apos;s popularity is already mind-boggling: to date, it has been responsible for &apos;assisting&apos; the creation of over a million s