AI-Generated Music: Tech, Copyright & Real-World Applications with Mateusz Modrzejewski

In this episode, I talk with Mateusz Modrzejewski, a professional musician and AI researcher and assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, about AI-generated music: how it works, what artists think about it, the big copyright questions, and where AI tools can genuinely support the creative process instead of replacing it.

Outline

00:00 Episode highlights and introduction

00:49 Thoughts on AI-generated music

02:09 The good sides of AI

03:40 The bad sides of AI

04:43 How do professional musicians feel?

08:03 The data scraping problem and data poisoning research

11:33 How AI music generation actually works

15:04 How to start experimenting with AI music

18:26 Future of the music industry

25:22 The AI song contest

29:15 Resources to learn more