USA Today: Many musicians are speaking out against AI in music. But how do consumers feel?

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Martin Clancy was quoted in the USA Today article discussing musician reactions and sentiments towards AI generated music.

Music and tech innovation have long come together to find the right harmony, and AI may be another chord in that familiar song.
The rise of the MP3 file in the late ‘90s and early 2000s ushered in a craze for iPods and MP3 players powered by digital downloads. And in the 2010s, the advent of audio streaming set the stage for on-demand music libraries with streaming services such as Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music.
“Music is always about pieces of technology being reimagined and repurposed and used for something other than they were invented for,” says Martin Clancy, author of “Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem.” “What’s different now is the technology is happening really, really fast.”

– Edward Segarra, USA Today