How Musicians Can Get Paid for Training AI (opens in new tab)

Generative AI has complicated the definition of use. On the one hand, you could argue that the use of a piece of musical training data happens just once, at the point of training. On the other hand, creators would be right to complain that the creative essence of their work lives on in the structure of the model, used every time the model produces an output.Now, companies like Sureel and SoundVerse are working to re-create the essential economic principle that motivates creativity in an era o...