Top Japanese girl band AKB48 have released a single created using AI, after it proved more popular with fans than a rival song written by famed J-pop producer Yasushi Akimoto.
As part of a songwriting competition on a Nippon TV program called “Akimoto Yasushi vs AI Akimoto Yasushi: AKB48 New Song Production Contest,” the AI – a version of Google’s Gemini – was trained on Akimoto’s library of lyrics and his public statements from interviews to develop its own creative voice,
The AI’s creation, “Omoide Scroll / “Memory Scroll,” described in Japanese media as a techno-pop track about heartbreak in the smartphone era, won 14,225 votes out of a total 24,760, according to the organizers.
Akimoto’s own song, titled “Cecil,” described as a retro-style piece where a girl sings about her admiration for another girl, received 10,535 votes.
Following news of the result, Akimoto said: “How am I supposed to react to this? It’s disappointing, I wrote it with all my effort.”
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