“AI goes around the internet and scrapes all of the lyrics but never provides any credits,” says Bryan-Kinns. “If an AI makes a song, gets famous, went to No 1, who would get money from them? Certainly not the people in the huge dataset of millions of songs. ...

Last summer, the [UK] government set out proposals to amend copyright laws that would allow AI creators to exploit musicians’ back catalogues without permission or compensation.