Mikey Shulman, the CEO of music gen AI platform Suno, says that the music industry’s supposed resistance to AI innovation stems from a “fixed pie mentality” while admitting to using copyright protected music in his company’s AI training data, something that he describes as “stock standard” practice that “every AI company does”.
In a wide ranging interview on a leading venture capital industry podcast The Twenty Minute VC, Shulman tells host Harry Stebbings that making music is “not really enjoyable”, and that the time and practice required to master an instrument or production software is a barrier for most people. “I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music”, he says.
Throughout the interview, Shulman repeatedly emphasises the importance of human taste and judgment in music creation, arguing that “increasingly taste is the only thing that matters in art and skill is going to matter a lot less”, comparing this shift …