"AI, when done right, isn’t here to replace musicians. It’s here to help artists learn, explore, and bring their ideas to life"
By Max Pilley 7th March 2026
Charlie Puth at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on February 13, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)
Charlie Puth has been named as the chief music officer of the AI-powered music platform Moises.
The Salt Lake City-based music tech company trains its AI models on licensed songs, offering a range of tools for musicians, composers and producers, including stem separation and isolation and chord identification. Users can upload their music and use the tools to generate additional instrumental parts.
AdvertisementIn his new role, Puth will offer guidance and feedback to Moises on the development of their platform and their creative direction, using his musical expertise to improve the product.
Speaking about joining Moises, Puth has said: “Every musician I know is using Moises, and I’ve been using it in my own creative process for years. It opens up possibilities that used to take hours or expensive studio setups, whether that’s isolating vocals to study technique or experimenting with arrangements in real time. AI, when done right, isn’t here to replace musicians. It’s here to help artists learn, explore, and bring their ideas to life.”
Moises will now host a global remix competition, dubbed Moises Jam Session. Users can access the stems to Puth’s new single ‘Beat Yourself Up’ and remix or cover the song, with a $100,000 cash prize on the line.
That song is the latest taste of Puth’s upcoming fourth album ‘Whatever’s Clever!’, which will be out on March 27, after being delayed for three weeks to avoid Harry Styles’ ‘Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally’.
RecommendedIn other AI news, Apple Music will now let users know if they are listening to music that was made using the technology, following a study last year that revealed that 97 per cent of people “can’t tell the difference” between real and AI music.
Before then, figures in 2024 warned that people working in music were likely to lose a quarter of their income to AI over the following four years.
As well as Apple, Deezer has also tackled the rise of AI-generated content – which it said in September made up 28 per cent of content on the platform – sharing that it had demonetised 85 per cent of all AI-generated tracks on its site using an AI-detection tool.
AdvertisementBandcamp has banned all AI-created tracks too, saying: “We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI-generated.”
Last year, Spotify confirmed that it was cracking down on AI as well, and removing 75million “spammy tracks” and targeting impersonators. That statement followed a report which claimed that AI-generated songs were being uploaded to dead musicians’ Spotify profiles without permission.
Paul McCartney, Kate Bush and Elton John are among the major British artists to have urged Keir Starmer to protect the work of creatives, and the Prime Minister told NME in 2025 that the government were working to “get the balance right.”
This week, SZA said she feels “at war” with the technology as a Black artist. “It’s happening disproportionately with Black music,” she said. “Why am I hearing AI covers of Olivia Dean, when Olivia Dean just came the fuck out? She can’t even collect the streams. I’m also really offended by the type of Black music that’s coming out of AI. Weird, stereotypical struggle music.”
