The sad losers in the 📝Suno AI subreddit are extremely upset over the announcement that Udio, an AI music generator, has partnered with Universal Music Group. “In partnership with UMG, we will be working closely with their extraordinary artists, songwriters and catalog to help bring your favorite music onto the platform while providing artists with control over how AI is used to make music and connect with fans,” Udio’s CEO Andrew Sanchez wrote in the announcement. The big difference right now is that Udio users can no longer download their AI generations. “It's over for Udio yeah. If Suno does the same, someone else will take their place. This is just the dying screams of greedy record labels scrambling to stay relevant,” one Suno AI user on Reddit wrote. As much as it goes against all of my millennial programming to say this, the record labels are not the baddies in this instance. But this also brings us one step closer to what will assuredly be the new status quo for generative AI. There will be models that are copyright safe and there will be ones that aren’t. For such a supposedly revolutionary, disruptive technology, it’s fascinating how quickly it’s settled into the exact same space that digital downloads and streaming have. ~ 📝Ryan Broderick of 📝Garbage Day
