Gm. Everyone saw the AI Drake banger last week, right? Well, it looks like there’s gonna be a lot more AI music coming soon. Even Y Combinator invested in an AI music company!

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POLLS

Monday’s poll had the most answers we’ve ever received. Reading styles are really controversial! As for me, I’m a Kindle-only type-guy.

“Will always opt for the screen-free alternative when such an option exists” I do admit there is something special about a paperback book.

“I download books to my brain Matrix-style via my homemade Neuralink” Same bro. Livin in the Matrix on the daily.

“It's around 70% Physical Books, 20% Audiobooks, and 10% E-Books.” Like the breakdown. The right narrator can make an audiobook feel like listening to a stand-up show. **chef’s kiss**

“I need the tactile experience of holding the book and turning pages to help my brain absorb the info. Pixels on screens just don't stick nearly as well.” IDK Kindle highlights hit different.

🏠 AI x MUSIC

Grimes Offers 50% Split to AI Artists

Grimes, EDM artist and ex-wife of Elon Musk, declares that any artist that uses AI to make music with her voice will make 50% royalties on all collabs.

While Big Music is freaking out about AI creating bangers and taking away their job, Grimes (who is not signed with any label) is incentivizing creators to make music with her voice. Techno-optimism at its finest.

Now AI music app UBERDUCK (lol incredible name) is hosting a $10,000 music production contest with Grimes’s voice. Starts immediately, enter by May 15, grand prize is $7,000. “This is madness but very sick,” said Grimes.

The future rly is now

In just the last couple days, there’s been new AI Grimes released like Lockscreen Baby by Heartlocket.

“I have been working on an AI voice model for Grimes so that music and computers can become the same thing,” Heartlocket said on Twitter. “Everyone should be able to make music with everyone forever.”

The big question going around on Twitter is how Grimes will be automating and approving the songs and royalties. From the tweet below, it looks like she’ll be using smart contracts. AI + Music + Crypto = 🤯

So good news music fans. It’s not just Grimes and the famous AI Drake song that broke the internet There’s also been AI Travis Scott, Ariana Grande, Frank Ocean, and more.

Where can I listen to AI music?

The best websites I found so far are

• beatlymusic.com 

• musicfy.lol 

We’re living in a really weird moment right now. It’s like pre-streaming days where everyone was sharing .mp3s and torrents.

There will definitely be some people angry, but music fans should be happy. There’s some incredible new music being made. And if it makes you feel any better, all the AI music being made is trained on voices by mega-popstars like Drake, Travis Scott, Ariana Grande, etc. AI isn’t coming for the jobs of you or your musician friends anytime soon.

Why should I care? AI music is here. There’s gonna be an entire scene/industry popping up around this. The aforementioned UBERDUCK is a YC company. Musicfy just signed their first AI musician. This is real, people. In the words of Grimes, “the future is rly now”.

🏠 TECH

Apple Wins An Epic Lawsuit

Back in October, we wrote about the controversy over Apple’s App Store. The short of it is Apple knows that apps need the App Store a whole lot more than the App Store needs any one app, so they implement rules that favor the app store.

Chief among these rules is a 30% tax on in-app purchases. So, if you buy a Fortnite skin, 30% of your purchase goes right to Tim Cook’s bank account. Considering that the App Store has done $260B in sales, it’s a pretty lucrative business.

This drives app developers absolutely insane, and it especially needles Epic, the creators of Fortnite.

Fortnite is one of the most popular video games in the world, and it is also one of the most profitable. 68.8% of Fortnite players spend money on in-game items, with the average spender shelling out $84.67. That’s a lot of money, but with Apple’s 30% tax, that number drops to $59.27. Ouch.

Like every other person breathing, Epic hates paying taxes, so they attempted to allow Fortnite app players to pay using Epic’s own payment processor. When Apple caught wind of Epic’s treachery, they booted Fortnite off the App Store. Epic then sued Apple over its App Store policies, a lawsuit which Apple has now won twice in two years.

Which leaves Epic with a harsh truth.

The App Store can take 30% of whatever it wants.

Why should I care? Apple has won for now, but their big tech peers are getting tired of their tactics. Epic and Spotify are upset about the App Store, Meta is upset about their ad privacy rules, and a multitude of partners are upset about them stealing ideas. Apple is so dominant that they can withstand these hits, but you have to wonder how many bridges they can burn before their city starts starving.

🏃‍♀️ QUICKIES

What else is going on?

• Verified Twitter Blue accounts are now prioritized on the algorithm

• OpenAI put in some new ChatGPT privacy features.

• Snapchat’s AI chatbot has not been well-received.

• If you're a tech middle manager, you should probably sleep with one eye open.

Stat: 14%: The productivity boost that customer service workers at a Fortune 500 software firm had after being given access to generative AI tools. Put a point down for the AI optimists.

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Thanks for the nightmares, Reddit.

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