Charlie Puth has been appointed chief music officer at AI music platform Moises, marking a major new role for the pop star in the growing music technology sector.
The platform, used by more than 70 million musicians worldwide, offers tools that allow artists to isolate vocals and instruments, detect chords and experiment with different arrangements during the songwriting and production process.
Puth says the technology has already been part of his own workflow for years.
“I’ve been using Moises in my own creative process for years, as have many of my friends.
“It opens up possibilities that used to take hours or expensive studio setups.”
What Charlie Puth will do in his new role
In his new position, Puth will help guide the platform’s creative direction and work with the company on new artist-focused features.
The aim is to develop tools that reflect how musicians actually work in studios and during the songwriting process, while maintaining a human-led creative approach.
Puth emphasised that the technology is designed to support musicians rather than replace them.
“AI, when done right, isn’t here to replace musicians.
“It’s here to help artists learn, explore, and bring their ideas to life.”
Global remix competition launched with $100,000 prize pool
To mark the announcement, Puth and Moises have launched a global remix competition running until 31 March.
Fans and musicians are invited to create a remix or cover of Puth’s track Beat Yourself Up from his album Whatever’s Clever! using the platform’s tools.
Puth will personally choose the winners. The prize package includes a share of $100,000 in cash and prizes, along with a meet-and-greet at his New York City show on 29 May.
Entries can be submitted through the Moises platform.
AI continues to divide opinion across the music industry
Artificial intelligence remains one of the most debated issues in modern music production.
Thom Yorke of Radiohead has been a vocal critic of the technology, arguing that current AI systems rely on existing human work.
Speaking to Electronic Sound magazine, Yorke said:
“As far as I can tell in music and art and all creative industries, Al is so far only able to ‘create’ variations on genuine human artistic expression, and those are obvious. Is Al capable of genuine original creative thought? I have yet to see that. It analyses and steals and builds iterations without acknowledging the original human work it analysed. It creates pallid facsimiles, which is useful in the same way auto-accompaniment is useful, or a screensaver of a beautiful natural landscape in a billionaire’s bunker is.
“But the economic structure is morally wrong … the human work used by AI to fake its creativity is not being acknowledged. Writers are not paid. It’s a weird kind of wanky, tech-bro nightmare future, and it seems this is what the tech industry does best. A devaluing of the rest of humanity, other than themselves, hidden behind tech. In the US right now, we are witnessing this spilling over into politics.
“We are. in modern parlance. ‘creatives. which is a term I find deeply offensive because it arrived around the time that art morphed into ‘content’ for devices.”
Yorke was also among more than 10,500 artists who signed a statement warning AI companies about the use of copyrighted material without permission. Signatories included Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA and Robert Smith from The Cure.
The statement read:
“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”
