Who Gets Heard? Rethinking Fairness in AI for Music Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05953v1
• Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2025 10:03:22 GMT
• Title: Who Gets Heard? Rethinking Fairness in AI for Music Systems
• Authors: Atharva Mehta, Shivam Chauhan, Megha Sharma, Gus Xia, Kaustuv Kanti Ganguli, Nishanth Chandran, Zeerak Talat, Monojit Choudhury,
• Abstract summary: We raise concerns about cultural and genre biases in AI for music systems.<n>These biases affect stakeholders including creators, distributors, and listeners shaping representation in AI for music.<n>We offer recommendations at dataset, model and interface level in music-AI systems.
• Score: 27.73654834833813
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: 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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