By Jack Guy and Riku Inoue, NCS
(NCS) — Top Japanese girl band AKB48 have launched a single created utilizing AI, after it proved extra common with fans than a rival song written by famed J-pop producer Yasushi Akimoto.
As a part of a songwriting competitors on a Nippon TV program referred to as “Akimoto Yasushi vs AI Akimoto Yasushi: AKB48 New Song Production Contest,” the AI – a model of Google’s Gemini – was skilled on Akimoto’s library of lyrics and his public statements from interviews to develop its personal inventive voice,
The AI’s creation, “Omoide Scroll / “Memory Scroll,” described in Japanese media as a techno-pop monitor about heartbreak within the smartphone period, gained 14,225 votes out of a complete 24,760, in accordance to the organizers.
Akimoto’s personal song, titled “Cecil,” described as a retro-style piece the place a girl sings about her admiration for an additional girl, acquired 10,535 votes.
Following information of the consequence, Akimoto stated: “How am I supposed to react to this? It’s disappointing, I wrote it with all my effort.”
However, he had beforehand instructed that he can be open to being impressed by the AI.
“If the AI can write a better song, that would make me happy. I want to see it and think, ‘I never thought of that! It’ll help us decide which direction the next AKB ought to head in,” he stated earlier than the results of the vote was introduced.
And the AI “Akimoto” was gracious in victory.
“AI is good at deriving the ‘greatest common denominator’ from past data. Perhaps by losing, the real me was trying to show something new,” it stated.
To which the human Akimoto responded jokingly: “Oh, be quiet.”
AKB48 have remained pretty impartial within the conflict of the Akimotos, however the band did submit on its official X account: “Thank you for watching the Nippon TV special program ‘Yasushi Akimoto × AI: Yasushi Akimoto vs. AKB48 New Song Showdown.’ The winner was surprisingly AI Yasushi Akimoto.”
As for the band’s fans, a majority of social media feedback expressed pleasure in regards to the launch of the AI-generated song.
“To be honest, this one seems like it will sell better. It feels like this one has something that recent Akimoto songs have been missing,” wrote one.
AKB48 is the world’s largest pop group, with greater than 120 members.
They are of their teenagers to mid-20s, and are break up into groups to rotate performances. When they “graduate,” they’re changed by trainees.
The younger girls are industrial darlings, promoting every part from chocolate to cell telephones and even showing in movies recruiting for the Japanese navy and selling authorities bonds.
They have additionally spawned their very own manga sequence, video video games and several other sister teams, like Shanghai’s SNH48, Jakarta’s JKT48 and Manila’s MNL48.
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