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This paper presents a text-to-music generation system that leverages reward conditioning, expert iteration, and preference tuning to improve audio quality within a 120M-parameter model, submitted to the ATTM Grand Challenge at ICME 2026.
The article notes that the cost of replacing human employees with AI may be comparable to or higher than that of real employees, and humans have an inherent preference for human interaction. Thus, large-scale AI substitution faces two significant hurdles: cost and user experience.