Artificial intelligence has already become an everyday tool in Paraguayan recording studios, transforming the way music is produced. Producers, composers, and artists are incorporating these technologies into their creative processes, speeding up stages that once required hours of work.
Music producer Óscar Sanabria explains that AI acts as an additional instrument, capable of cleaning tracks, tuning vocals, suggesting chords, and even generating complete arrangements in seconds. "This streamlines processes and allows producers to focus more on the artistic side than the technical one," he states. He emphasizes that, rather than replacing, the technology expands creative possibilities.
Dani Meza, singer for the band Tierra Adentro, acknowledges using AI tools to generate demos and save time but keeps the songwriting process entirely human. "Personal experiences generate emotions, and emotions generate inspiration. AI builds ideas from a prompt, but there is always a human intervention to get a result," he highlights.
In the legal field, concerns are emerging about copyright. David Portillo, president of the Paraguayan Authors Association (APA), warns that AI does not create from scratch but generates products from data extracted from protected original works. "The great challenge is to define who is the author of a work generated by AI and how to ensure that authors receive fair remuneration when their works are used to feed these systems," he explains.
Portillo mentions that the APA is monitoring international debates and legal proceedings, such as the case between the German society GEMA and the platform Suno, which could set important precedents for the regulation of the sector.
Despite the advances, experts agree that the ability to evoke emotion remains exclusively human. Sanabria and Meza emphasize that the human essence of music—the interpretation, the emotion, and the story behind a song—cannot be programmed or fully replicated by technology.