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DAVID DARLING, A MUSIC PRODUCER AND SCIENCE WRITER, SAID IT ONLY TAKES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BOTS 30 SECONDS TO MAKE TRACKS THAT SOUND AS IF THEY WERE MADE BY THE LEGENDARY SWEDISH POP

GROUP JAMES CAVEN 21:13, 02 Jun 2025 AI is now so evolved in music that it can produce songs that sound like ABBA hits in seconds, an expert has warned. David Darling, a music producer and

science writer, said it only takes artificial intelligence bots 30 seconds to make tracks that sound as if they were made by the legendary Swedish pop group. He believes new musicians should

be worried about AI because it is evolving so rapidly that creativity may not be a uniquely human trait in a few years time. Mr Darling said it’s ‘very worrisome’ and that he is concerned

for young musicians trying to launch their careers. David told the Instant Genius podcast: “Well, of course this is evolving, isn’t it, all the time.We don’t know where it’s going to go. “We

don’t even know whether we really have control of it. “But if I was a starting-out musician today, or any kind of creative artist actually, I would be very concerned because already you can

ask an AI system to produce a pop song, say that sounds like ABBA, for example, and give it a few guidelines and it will do it. Article continues below “And it sounds fine. “You can even

synthesise the voices.” He questioned ‘who is going to pay an artist to produce a particular picture if an AI system can do it in 30 seconds?’. He added that governments need to make a

decision about how much AI is going to be allowed to use other people’s original work to produce new work. Mr Darling continued: “It will happen that computers can produce entire symphonies

that sound wonderful, but there’s no human involved in it, or a new pop song that shoots to number one which sounds great, you know, but no human element involved, except what’s been grabbed

off the internet. “Do we want that, you know, or should we flag it on every single thing so that you know if it’s AI produced or not? “I think it’s very worrisome, quite frankly. “We always

think of creativity as being a uniquely human thing, but that may not be the case in a few years’ time. “And now is the time to make that decision. “Of course, the other thing is it’s a

financial thing. “If, like I say, if these things can be produced for next to nothing, companies are going to make money out of thin air basically, just by using AI systems. “We have a

decision to make, you know, people, individuals, are we going to sort of not buy AI stuff so that we support original musicians? “Or are we just going to allow it to go ahead and take its

own course? “It’s undetermined, we don’t know. Article continues below “The future is unknown.”