New Awards Ceremony Launched for AI Music Creators "To Be Judged as Artists, Not Experiments"

The inaugural AI Music Awards are here to honor the grueling craft of describing a song to a website.On November 13th, the Sonic Intelligence Academy (SIQA) will hold the inaugural AIMAs, a ceremony at The Mayan in Downtown LA that the organization describes as the first stage where AI “artists” are honored for their work.

Bold words from a group whose own category system includes the label ‘Fully AI-Generated.’ “Welcome to AI music,” reads a press release issued by SIQA.“Until now, the genre has never had a home.

The AI Music Awards are that home: the first stage built for AI artists to be judged as artists, not experiments.” SIQA astoundingly makes its case by comparing generative AI music to the great musical birthplaces, noting that country had Nashville and hip-hop had the Bronx, among others.AI music, apparently, has a login screen.

The release also claims that the 90s and 2000s are the most sampled eras in history, which points more to the concern that AI creators are pilfering those classics using controversial platforms like Suno.Our readers may wonder who exactly is being honored.

The nominees are listed on the ceremony’s website, and its organizers insist they prove this is a movement finding its footing and not a novelty category.A movement with a ‘Visionary Award,’ no less.

If you’ve ever typed “a house track where a woman says ‘feel the energy’ in a British accent’ into a text box, you’ve got a shot at that one.Now for the business side.

SIQA, which calls itself “an independent AI music intelligence and infrastructure company,” is launching the AIMAs alongside a companion app.Every registered track gets sorted into one of three buckets: Fully AI-Generated, AI-Assisted, or Human + AI Hybrid, the last of which covers things like vocal cloning.

The pitch is that labels, distributors, streaming platforms and listeners get a way to check a track’s provenance that goes past a generic AI tag.Th...