Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on where to draw hard lines around AI in music
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Collins is CEO of music tech company Splice, which provides a platform for musicians to share samples and creative tools for composing tracks.
The sample model was once specific to certain music genres, but now all music uses it, from country to K-pop.
Samples start as other people’s sounds, but musicians make them their own, a “profound creative process,” Collins says, essential to modern music.
He denies that AI is promoting a trend of simply assembling music from pre-made components, anticipating a backlash against the use of AI in music.
As with art, two musicians can take the same sample and create different pieces, and the evolution of music has always involved stealing and reworking other people’s sounds, he says.
Protecting the rights of the artists who create the samples is a key priority for the industry, he adds.
AI can master music for listeners, but he believes the industry will resist its use to fake entire tracks.