Tom Dunne: AI sounds a worrying note for Irish musicians 

While we claim to appreciate an industry that generates millions for the economy and priceless pleasure for its participants, more needs to be done to protect music and musicians from the march of technology 

There have been some rather scary developments in the world of AI music recently. Picture: iStock

That’s the things about tech. One minute it’s all VHS recorders, CRT TVs, CD players ad floppy disk drives and the next minute it isn’t. You wake up and can’t find a floppy drive for love nor money.

Could music be next? Could it be all Hozier, CMAT and Fontaines DC one minute and just AI elevator music the next? It might seem extreme, but if the song is the building block and AI can write songs, well, where do you begin?