# Is AI ruining music?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2025
- Speaker: Dustin Ballard
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design, Music
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/dustin_ballard_is_ai_ruining_music)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

What makes music “real” — is it the instruments, the voice, the creator’s intention or something else entirely? Dustin Ballard, the creative force behind the viral channel “There I Ruined It,” explores the weird, wonderful and sometimes unsettling ways AI is reshaping music. With fiddle solos and AI-powered mashups of your favorite songs, he invites us to ask: Are new tools fostering creativity, or just making noise?

## Lectures

1. [Is AI ruining music?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/dustin_ballard_is_ai_ruining_music/3016bbb120ae), 12 min (TED's player)