YouTube is now letting creators remix songs through AI prompting
YouTube added a capability for select creators in the U.S. to create AI-generated songs via prompts using the vocals of artists like Charlie Puth, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato, John Legend, Sia, T-Pain, and Troye Sivan last year. Now, the company is adding a feature for select creators to remix a track by describing how they want to change the style of a song.
The video streaming platform is making select songs through its label partners available to creators for the new remix experiment.
If a creator is a part of the test group, they can select an eligible song, select the “Retstyle a track” option, and describe how they want to restyle the track. This will generate a 30-second snippet that creators can use in their Shorts.
On a support page, Google noted that the remixed sound snippet will be attributed to the original song through the Short and the Shorts audio pivot page. Plus, it will also have an appropriate label to indicate that the track was modified through AI.
YouTube released the Dream Track feature in November 2023, powered by the Lyrica music generation model developed by Deepmind. At that time, the platform also released a tool that created a track by a user just humming a tune.
