The United States Supreme Court recently rejected copyright eligibility for artistic content generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The decision stemmed from the Thalmer v. Perlmutter case from March 2, 2026 and ruled that any work of art created entirely by AI cannot have copyright status. Thinking back to my recent Symphony (In the Age of Artificiality) (2019-2025), I explained that I applied an “Electronic Voice” in the final movement of the piece. I created the text for the “Electronic Voice” via the text2speech.org website. That website does not, however, implement generative AI. It functions as more traditional “Text-to-Speech” (TTS) conversion programming instead. The computerized voices available on the website also do not apply more realistic emotional inflections that "sound" human. The website also requires human effort. I physically typed the text into the given space on the website, chose a computerized voice to narrate the words, and downloaded the narration as an audio file to include for my electroacoustic orchestral piece. The end result produced electronic speech that I intentionally wanted to sound cold, and monotone and eerie to complement the overall theme for the Symphony about invasive technology in the arts.
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