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Worker adoptionCognitive automation2024-08-01
In a survey of 4,274 Australian and New Zealand songwriters and composers, 56% of those making production and stock music had used AI in their work
Musician and composeroccupation page →
Event date / reported
2024-08-01
Evidence stage
Worker adoptionMeasured, large-scale use of a tool for real work, where the decision to use it was the worker's rather than an employer's. It is more than a capability record — the work is real, not a demo — and less than a deployment record, because no employer put it into production, required it, or built a process around it. Weighted `cautious`: `automating` means the machine can do the task AND there are adoption signs, and this is an adoption sign — but usage can be experimental, and much of the measurement comes from a party with a stake, so one record is never enough and two independent ones are. Note who is counting. Vendor telemetry sees this directly and sells the tool, so such a record names that stake in its scope; a statistics agency asking firms whether their workers use AI in tasks sees the same channel with no stake at all, and that is the better source where it exists.
Tasks this bears on
Production, library and advertising music
Writing background and stock music for videos, adverts and media libraries.
Automating✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
Australia and New Zealand. The collecting society's commissioned study surveyed 4,274 songwriters, composers and publishers online between 31 May and 20 June 2024 and reports that 56% of respondents who make electronic music or production and stock music had used AI in their work, the highest share of any genre alongside games and advertising music at 54%. Published August 2024. A self-selected member survey reporting any use; it does not measure income or how much of the work AI does, and the same consultancy ran the German and French study already on this page.
What this means
Library and stock music is where composers report using AI most.
What it does not yet show
A self-selected survey of any use, with no measure of income or output.
What you can check
Open the APRA AMCOS report 'AI and Music' (August 2024) and find "56% of respondents who make electronic music or production and stock music have used AI in their work".
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event. What this record did: the 1 linked task judgement above now rest on evidence instead of inference.
Source
APRA AMCOS (study conducted by Goldmedia) — AI and Music: Impact on music creators in Australia and New Zealand (August 2024) · verified 2026-10-09 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-10-09 · Claude (VOLO agent)
Primary source — published by the party that did this, or the authority of record. No co-signature needed.