Michael Huppe
CEO of SoundExchange
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Oct 2, 2026
Are AI Music Tools A New Instrument?
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10:36And so is this a thing that should be labeled as AI? And And one of the things that I keep thinking about, you mentioned autotune, is in this case, is this really her using Suno as an instrument? Is her voice creation almost like an instrument? Or if you thought about sampling, it's an interesting space here, right?

Michael HuppeGUEST
The fact that she wrote the lyrics, you know, in the music industry, lyrics and recordings are separated.
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YMC Special Episode - A Conversation With Sound Exchange CEO Michael Huppe
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Michael HuppeGUEST
In the music industry, I'm finding most things are more complicated than people might think at first.

Michael HuppeGUEST
But at a very high level, there's a couple ways AI can mess with the money flow, right? The most basic is the typical way that money is divided up on these services.

Michael HuppeGUEST
People are experimenting with different revenue models, you know, artist-centric and user-centric.

Michael HuppeGUEST
But as a general rule... you know, all of the subscription money goes into one bucket and then all that gets divided among all of the streams of every recording that goes in a bucket.

Jay GilbertHOST
Talk a little bit about the differences again, for those with no prior knowledge between an AI assisted track and maybe a fully generated AI track.
SoundExchange President and CEO Michael Huppe Talks AI in Music Industry
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Michael HuppeGUEST
It is making it into some of these streaming services, maybe not at the scale that you would expect yet.

Michael HuppeGUEST
But, I mean, there have been reports of, you know, whether it's 1% to 2% or 3%.

Michael HuppeGUEST
There are cases where people use AI tracks, set up bots around, and they siphon away payment from the – pipeline that would otherwise go to real artists and real record labels.

Carol MassarHOST
But will you get a percentage of AI-created songs? Is that what this, I'm just curious how you guys are jockeying
