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And Sokan isn't just making some vague argument that AI is bad for musicians.

They're actually site 150 tracks that Sumo have generated using all or... substantially all the existing SOCAN songs without permission.

This is important because it brings up the biggest question facing the music industry right now, which is, can I be trained on human music to create a catalog of competing songs that imitate and appropriate and plagiarize those songs without ever getting consent from the original human creators? And here's where it gets really interesting because the day before Sokan filed it, Jason Isbell, the American musician, filed suit against Suno in his own case in the United States.

It took a different angle.

really right so not only are you entertained with this good music but there's this it's not subliminal messaging but certainly it's this it's a marketing where you're you know you're singing along to whatever sprinkle me this and the song is about the decadent donut blend coffee from buff boy brewing so you don't even realize that it's basically a two and a half minute ad for the coffee and it's a state it's a it's a radio station that's streaming this and the songs are on spotify and tick tock and youtube and apple music one big giant marketing machine a radio station so we have buff boy brewing coffee which was the initial product and then club buff which was a downloadable app and then we spun that off into buff radio which also streams through the buffer buff club buff app So now we make money with ads in the app.

We make money with, because the music, by the way, just to go back, because our company is a broadcaster in Canada, we're licensed and we're part of SOCAN, which is the Song and Composition Artists, I can't remember, anyway.

But I'm not the writers union, but while I'm part of the writers union, yes, but you know, our music is licensed.

So every time it streams on somebody's, everybody, every, every time somebody uses it on their TikTok page or YouTube or whatever it is, or streams it, we're paid for that.

The song we were just listening to was actually created through AI by a friend of mine, a guy named Mohit Rajans, who's an AI expert.

And he did it just on the occasion of the fact that SOCAN, which is the organization that tries to enforce the rights of songwriters, is sounding the alarm about AI.

And the thing is, like, i i've listened to a few ai songs and some of them are perfectly good so i think who really cares what the origin is but so can's objection and songwriters objections are that in order to create it you have to feed in you know the entire universe of pop music for example and so it's actually pilfering it's sampling from that stuff in order to create the songs it creates

I woke up in the middle of the night and I couldn't sleep because I was wondering where do Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift live?