Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on where to draw hard lines around AI in music

Today, I’m talking with Kakul Srivastava, CEO of music creation platform Splice. I don’t think I need to really introduce Splice, actually — I just need to play this clip: If you exist on planet Earth, you know that as the guitar loop from Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso,” which is an inescapable pop music phenomenon. You can check out the sample in full right here in the “Espresso” chorus. That loop is part of a sample pack on Splice — in fact, most of “Espresso” is part of a sample pack on Splice, which is one of the biggest marketplaces for loops and samples around. You can just sign up, pay the money, download the loops, and try to make pop hits all day long. This is a part of making music now, and it has been ever since Rihanna’s monster hit “Umbrella” was built around a GarageBand loop called “Vintage Funk 03” in 2007. Listen to Decoder, a show hosted by The Verge’s Nilay Patel about big ideas — and other problems. Subscribe here! Now, if you’re a Decoder listener, you know tha ... Read full article.