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Söderström: AI will not replace human artists like Taylor Swift
“I do think the human need for having someone to believe in an actual artist that you care about, I don't think Taylor Swift will be Replace by an AI, not because the music couldn't sound similar, but because the whole point is Taylor Swift and belonging to som…”
Söderström: Superstars will grow bigger despite an explosion of niche AI content
“I also think you're going to see the same thing as we see in music. The superstars will actually also get bigger.”
Söderström: AI will cause an explosion in niche podcast catalogs
“We're going to have enormous amounts of content around niches where it didn't make sense to produce a podcast. So one way to think about it is just like the cost went to zero. So I do think that the catalog is going to explode.”
Söderström: It Will Become Very Difficult to Define an AI Song
“So I think there's actually a scale between zero AI and a hundred percent AI. And I think we're on this progression where it's actually going to be very difficult to say what is an AI song.”
Söderström: AI-generated music will proliferate in functional and ambient use cases
“For certain things, maybe you could create better white noise, maybe you could create better you know, always varying ambient music for your studying, maybe for gaming, maybe that music should automatically adjust what's happening on the screen. So I think we'…”