A new study from the University of York has found that AI-generated music may be less favored and inferior to human-composed music.
The study took 50 participants with a high level of music knowledge and had them listen to excerpts of classical music either generated by a human, an AI called Deep Learning, or one generated by a non-Deep Learning algorithm.
They were not told who created the music, just to rate the piece on six musical dimensions: stylistic success, aesthetic pleasure, repetition, melody, harmony, and rhythm.
Results of the study found that the human-generated music…
