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Hey, hey, hey. Welcome to episode 45 of Something Wrong with the podcast. We in the four five. I need to play games with you. Shout out. Jay, I am back. I'm back in New York. I was home for the holidays. We'll get to that in a second. Your boy is low key geeked right now. I'm excited, but also like actually medically geeked. And by medically I mean highly caffeinated. I bought if you can see here, if you pay attention to my background, I'm always. I recorded my home low overhead. There's no studio payment here, just rent. If you look over to my shoulder here, you can see this beautiful machine here that is called a Breville Impress Touch Pro. That is a very incredible, intuitive smart machine that I came in the mail today and it is. I'm recording this in the evening and I did not allow that from stopping me from making a beautiful day. Double latte, double espresso latte that I just finished and it hit me like a Vyvanse. I feel like I popped an Adderall and who knows if I'll sleep tonight. If I don't, that means I will just write a lot or just do a movie marathon of sorts or something. Usually when I'm this geeked on coffee, it gets my creative juices flowing and I want to like, express it in variation of ways. Who's to say how that'll manifest tonight, but I'm open to wherever the wind blows. I do want to say that espresso machine is honestly mostly due in part to the support from this show. Obviously, this isn't an ad for Breville. Breville's like the damn Rolls Royce of coffee machines. They don't need to pay me to plug their products. But in, in a moment of like, transparency, from where I was financially a year ago to where I am today, this show as well as other, you know, streams of income in my life have obviously played a big part in this but this show, being one of them, has really uplifted me mentally and enough, you know, monetarily to have some, you know, excess money to do stuff like this. Again, I keep a low overhead. I record at home. I do everything myself. I don't owe anybody money. That seems to be the thing that kind of kills other shows, is scheduling and finding out certain payouts. But again, when I do it myself, I get to decide what I want to do with all the money. And pretty good lump sum of that went to this bad boy over here. I will be filming a lot of coffee content, and this thing will most likely become my new personality, which is not bad, especially as we turn into the colder months, mainly January, AKA for me, dry January, where I will continue my dry January streak for the second year and probably just get geeked off of coffee instead. But we'll get to all that later. We'll talk about Thanksgiving later as well. I want to get to a couple things that have been really pressing in the music side that I haven't been able to talk to because I did have a couple guests on my last few episodes. Shout out. Love, Kelly. That's my boy. I'm super happy for him. I see he's putting out this really, like, cool film about his journey, and I'm always following him closely. Something that I am very much invested in is if you've been on the timeline, if you've been in the music spaces. And I'm going to talk about two subjects today. We're going to talk about suno, this AI Music platform, which we'll get to in a second. And then also we're going to talk about the Grammy nominations, because I am behind on that. I haven't spoken about that yet on my platform, and I owe you that. I would love to give my opinion on the Grammy nominations as well. So let's go into suno. SUNO and Warner settle their dispute and sign a licensing deal marking a significant step in AI Generated music. So Suno is an AI generated music platform, Basically. Under the deal, artists can approve AI generated music as Suno rolls out updated models and integrates Warner's Songkick platform. We're gonna read a couple more tweets about this and then get into my opinion on this. I feel very strongly about this, and. And I feel like my opinion will not surprise anybody that listens to this show. This is from the founder of suno. Her name is Rosie. On Twitter, she goes by rosieloves. Soup. Her personality is soup. And stealing people's music I grew up singing. I sang everywhere, everywhere I went. I wrote songs in my diary. I told teachers that I wanted to be a singer and a songwriter when I grew up. But wanting to be a musician in 2006 required resources that low income families didn't have. My parents couldn't afford to get me any instruments, they couldn't pay for any music lessons, they couldn't get me in studios. And I dreamed that my journey was just a memory. Until now, mind you. Like leveraging this as the sob story for why you couldn't create music is just such bullshit. There's so many opportunities, schools and services that gave students in low income communities. The reason why there are so many people that make music from low income communities that then ultimately become successful is because of how accessible certain tools are. We grew up in the digital age like this is. You're saying in 2006 these tools weren't hard to come across. Like these were things that were readily available for kids, which often start as producers and then, you know, if they want to go into singing or rapping, that's the course they can go down as well. Like it's not. She's leveraging this as like this sob story angle, which is inherently not true. Let's continue though. I'm beyond proud and honored to get to work at a company that is enabling music creation for everyone from the 13 year old kid in their bedroom who dreams of being a musician, you can be one for all those professional artists, you can do more of what you love. I really Wish Suno existed 20 years ago when I was a kid in elementary school showing strangers songs I wrote with no way to produce them. But I'm really, really happy that exists today for all those other kids out there who might need it. We're just getting started, but basically Warner Music was valued. The startup raised over $250 million and their value is now at 2.45 billion. And again, I do want to reiterate, at no point is it impossible to make music while you're broke. You can write in diaries full of songs. Every creative project that kids do is low budget, low funded. It's not something that is a far fetched dream that she's making it. This really isn't a good step for music, nor is it a good step for creators. And we can get into why that is. It was revealed that I do have some more data here, some tweets here that Billboard got access to Suno's investment pitch deck. It revealed that suno had spent $32 million on compute and 2,000 on training data. So what SUNO is doing is actively training against artist music catalogs. And for like in simple terms, it's training on data transparency, basically meaning it's listening to music that is owned by artists or copyrighted by the label, and it is learning that music without permission. And it also doesn't list the sources. Musicians worry that their work is in these data sets without consent, which is true. Some users even demonstrated SUNO producing outputs similar to their known songs in raising questions about style mimicry. So we're really graying the area between the creator, the actual people that create the song, and then this SUNO platform recreating similar songs or songs of theirs without the artist's permission. It's also another argument is the devaluation of music labor. I can generate full songs in seconds, they said. This thing is generating Spotify playlists and catalogs at a rate in which obviously the human cannot create, which feels threatening to musicians who spend their days, hours, their lifetime creating this type of music to perfect their craft. You can, you know, replace composers for ad breaks or any quick music commissions with just inserting the the product that you want into suno and it'll spit out whatever you're looking for. Basically, we're kind of stripping the artist out of the creative process. This is not so much doing as much uplifting as it is doing replacing. And to no surprise, to no surprise at all, the person that is heavily involved with this, who's been the seemingly the arbiter of AI tech in music, is Timbaland.