Apple Music adds optional labels for AI songs and visuals

Apple Music has introduced a new metadata system called "Transparency Tags" requiring artists and record labels to voluntarily label content created using Artificial Intelligence on its streaming platform. These tags cover four categories: track (for material portions of sound recordings), composition (for lyrics or other compositional elements), artwork (at the album level), and music videos. Apple views this as a "concrete first step" toward industry-wide transparency, placing the responsibility for reporting AI usage on content providers. Unlike some competitors' detection systems, Apple's tags are entirely optional for now, leaving the determination of what qualifies as AI-generated content to the discretion of the distributors, similar to how genres or credits are managed. The article notes skepticism about the system's effectiveness given the lack of enforcement and motivation for widespread adoption.

(Source：The Verge)