TikTok Owner’s Latest App ‘Ripple’ Can Turn Your Hums Into Real Music – SlashGear

Ripple is currently not integrated into the main TikTok app, so users must save their tunes locally and then upload them as the background score for their short videos. ByteDance has, thankfully, created a shortcut that lets users directly share their Ripple tunes on TikTok.

Notably, ByteDance says the AI model behind Ripple was trained using music that was properly licensed or owned by the company. “It was not trained on music from the major labels,” ByteDance tells SlashGear. However, it’s unclear if the company signed any special deal with music labels or artists that goes behind just licensing their music and involves using their work for training an AI model.

The latter is an important distinction because Getty recently sued Stability AI for skirting around the image copyright terms and using them to train models like Stable Diffusion. In the domain of music and social media, Twitter was recently slapped with a $250 million lawsuit by a consortium of music labels for not paying the due licensing fee for music that appears on the platform.

TikTok is the first mainstream social media platform to offer an aI-assisted music generation tool via Ripple. However, it won’t be long before Meta gets inspired by it. That company demoed an AI tool called Voicebox a few weeks ago that only needs two seconds of audio sample to generate original audio in multiple languages. Google Assistant also offers a tool that listens to your hums to find the original song.