YouTube are letting users create songs with AI voices based on top artists like Charlie Puth, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato, Sia, and more.

YouTube have just announced a surprising new tool for users. Dream Track will allow users to create their own hits using AI voices based on top artists.

Looking to “shape the future of AI in music”, YouTube’s Dream Track will let users create a short song with AI prompts. They can then choose from 9 artists whose voices it will generate to sing the lyrics for the completely AI-created song.

YouTube have partnered with Alec Benjamin, Charlie Puth, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato, John Legend, Papoose, Sia, T-Pain, and Troye Sivan. These 9 artists are the first to allow AI to recreate their voices for YouTube’s Dream Track.

Dream Track will create 30 second snippets that users can then use in their YouTube Shorts. Hear how it works with a snippet of Charlie Puth’s AI voice created from a prompt below.

Puth wrote: “I’m extremely excited and inspired… YouTube has been a great partner in outlining their approach to AI and understands the need to work together to develop this technology responsibly, ensuring it will accelerate creativity instead of replacing it.”

Select creators in the US have been given access to Dream Track to experiment with and use in their Shorts.

Turn your voice into instruments with AI

Alongside the announcement of Dream Track, YouTube revealed other AI tools. Their Music AI Incubator team are developing a new tool that will turn voice recordings into instruments.

The tool will take sketching out musical ideas and jamming with yourself to a whole new level. By humming or singing a melody into the proposed tool, you can ask their AI to transform that into a guitar or a saxophone to hear what it would sound like.

Begin to layer these tracks and you start to hear a whole song together. It seems incredibly simple to use but with a powerful effect. Check it out in action below.

YouTube are looking to release this tool to Music AI Incubator participants later this year.

Human artists vs AI music

YouTube’s new tool comes as artists and organisations across the US fight for rights against AI. In fact, one of the most heated topics is the use of artists’ voices and music to train and replicate their sound.

A large part of the controversy comes as AI tools are trained using content without the creators’ position. YouTube are working with these artists to reproduce their voices with their consent.

But it still raises eyebrows as to the legitimacy of AI-made music. This is a large step towards legitimising AI music. We’re going to start hearing songs by these 9 artists in content that they never made.

YouTube state in their announcement: “Despite the tremendous opportunity AI presents, we also recognize it’s a quickly evolving space that presents complex challenges. One of YouTube’s greatest strengths is our strong relationships with music industry partners.

“We’re committed to collaborating with them as we enter this new era, critically exploring together new opportunities and developing sensible and sustainable controls, monetization and attribution frameworks.

“We’re still in the early stages of this work and expect that we’ll continue to evolve our approach as we learn more. You can read more about YouTube’s progress in responsible AI innovation here.“

How does that make you feel? Where do you stand on AI-generated music? Let us know and join the discussion in the comments below.