It's our first-ever crossover episode! This week on Have a Nice Future, Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode sit down with Puja Patel, cohost of The Pitchfork Review podcast, to discuss how AI is changing music. But first, they start with a pop quiz: Can our hosts differentiate between artists and their AI imposters?
Check out some of our stories about the intersection of AI and music, like how musicians are finding ways to harness generative AI creatively, the AI-generated music flooding your streaming platforms, and the bots listening to those AI-made songs.
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Gideon: I sound a bit manic? OK.
Lauren: [Laughter] Hi, I'm Lauren Goode.
Gideon: And I'm Gideon Lichfield. This is Have a Nice Future, a show about how fast everything is changing.
Lauren: Each week we talk to someone with big, audacious ideas about the future, and we ask them: Is this the future we want?
Gideon: This week we're talking about how generative AI is shaking up music with Puja Patel, the editor in chief of the music site Pitchfork.
Puja Patel (audio clip): I think people are getting more and more particular about having very clear, specific tastes, and also about not letting the computer trick them.
Lauren: Gideon, I wanted to start the show off a little bit differently today.