Who Gets Heard? Rethinking Fairness in AI for Music Systems

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Hauptverfasser: Mehta, Atharva, Chauhan, Shivam, Sharma, Megha, Xia, Gus, Ganguli, Kaustuv Kanti, Chandran, Nishanth, Talat, Zeerak, Choudhury, Monojit
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author Mehta, Atharva
Chauhan, Shivam
Sharma, Megha
Xia, Gus
Ganguli, Kaustuv Kanti
Chandran, Nishanth
Talat, Zeerak
Choudhury, Monojit
author_facet Mehta, Atharva
Chauhan, Shivam
Sharma, Megha
Xia, Gus
Ganguli, Kaustuv Kanti
Chandran, Nishanth
Talat, Zeerak
Choudhury, Monojit
contents In recent years, the music research community has examined risks of AI models for music, with generative AI models in particular, raised concerns about copyright, deepfakes, and transparency. In our work, we raise concerns about cultural and genre biases in AI for music systems (music-AI systems) which affect stakeholders including creators, distributors, and listeners shaping representation in AI for music. These biases can misrepresent marginalized traditions, especially from the Global South, producing inauthentic outputs (e.g., distorted ragas) that reduces creators' trust on these systems. Such harms risk reinforcing biases, limiting creativity, and contributing to cultural erasure. To address this, we offer recommendations at dataset, model and interface level in music-AI systems.
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spellingShingle Who Gets Heard? Rethinking Fairness in AI for Music Systems
Mehta, Atharva
Chauhan, Shivam
Sharma, Megha
Xia, Gus
Ganguli, Kaustuv Kanti
Chandran, Nishanth
Talat, Zeerak
Choudhury, Monojit
Computers and Society
Multimedia
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
In recent years, the music research community has examined risks of AI models for music, with generative AI models in particular, raised concerns about copyright, deepfakes, and transparency. In our work, we raise concerns about cultural and genre biases in AI for music systems (music-AI systems) which affect stakeholders including creators, distributors, and listeners shaping representation in AI for music. These biases can misrepresent marginalized traditions, especially from the Global South, producing inauthentic outputs (e.g., distorted ragas) that reduces creators' trust on these systems. Such harms risk reinforcing biases, limiting creativity, and contributing to cultural erasure. To address this, we offer recommendations at dataset, model and interface level in music-AI systems.
title Who Gets Heard? Rethinking Fairness in AI for Music Systems
topic Computers and Society
Multimedia
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05953