Investment firms will buy the music rights of famous artists before they die and after they die, the firm will generate "official" and "legal" AI music of that artist. They'll do this with all the famous boomer musicians like Bruce Springer, etc. All other ai music generated from that artist will be banned.
A single artist's catalog is probably too small to use as a self-contained training data set, so the first year of this will essentially be a race to see who can gobble up the most artists. Three years and many corporate buyouts later, a single company (I'm thinking Apple) will own it all.
Ehm. They already can do beatles, b.I.g. and cobain, off the top of my head. Search around you tube with keyword ai +artist name. It’s close to being 4/5 imitation, dodgy on intonation
They've been doing that for years now since all the old artists were making a fair amount of money off Spotify and streaming services. There already are big hordes of music rights for dead artists. They just gotta hook it up to the AI and start churning.