The music industry's AI fight

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Verge's Nilay Patel and David Pierce chat with Switched on Pop's Charlie Harding about the RIAA lawsuit against Al music startups Udio and Suno. Later, Nilay and David discuss the rest of this week's tech and gadget news. Subscribe to Vergecast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.0	Welcome to Switched on Pop. Welcome to Switched on Pop.
0:51.0	I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
0:53.0	For a minute, seemingly every music influencer
0:55.2	was going online and saying that AI music services
0:58.4	would be the death of pop music.
1:00.7	Just like ChatGPT can write sonnets about auto parts, new music AI tools like
1:06.3	Suno and Udo can generate entire songs from prompts. You want Grandma's
1:12.1	Dubstep Christmas?
1:13.2	Grandma's Downstep Christmas beats bumping through the snow.
1:17.0	Or how about the pledge of allegiance to your toothbrush?
1:22.8	I pledge to my toothbrush now sparkling teeth that does and down.
1:27.3	Empty fresh and oh so clean, whitest smile you've ever seen.
1:31.3	I mean, come on, with songs like those, you really should be just giving up on your
1:34.0	rock-star dreams right now seriously though this stuff is consequential these
1:38.3	music AI startups are being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for infringing on their copyright
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