If there’s anybody sticking up for the emergence of AI in music, it’s Timbaland. He’s at the forefront, pushing his AI ‘artist’ TaTa Taktumi, signing the tech to his label, and starring in a music video with it. It’s as morbid as you might expect it to be, and artists like JID are wholly against it. However, the legendary producer wants to bolster his side of the argument.

Recently, he posted some lengthy notes app screenshots addressing the online discourse around AI. Calling them ‘reality checks’ and claiming people have lost nuance, he first says that “you can’t monetize input data.” “There is no music stored in these models, it’s just mathematical weights,” Timbaland writes.

In addition to explaining how people use AI and all the other technical jargon, he tries to appeal to the pers

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