Making a Scene Presents Lemonaide Collab Club

Ethically Sourced AI for Beat Makers

Introduction

As AI becomes more prevalent in the music industry the question of ethical AI has become the part of the conversation. All AI models or engines adhere to the simple rule that has been part of the computer world since it’s beginning, “Garbage in, Garbage out”. Everything depends on what data is used to train the AI that will determine the quality and validity of its output. The question of Ethical vs Un-Ethical data used in the machine learning of the AI will effect how AI will be integrated into the music industry in the future. On one side are the ethical models—fairly trained on licensed music and data, can be part of an artist revenue stream much like royalties. On the other side of the spectrum are unethical AI companies—the ones that steal and scrape data to train their models, basically steal their intellectual data from artists without compensation . Needless to say this unethically trained generative AI will be extremely harmful to artists, and currently there is no legislation that protects the artist from AI use. For now it is up to companies and users to opt to use only AI models that are using ethical means to train their AI and fairly compensate the artists whose art is being used as that training data. Lemonaide is one of those companies!

Lemonaide

Lemonaide Seed, the artist-first creative AI, that is dedicated to ethical generative-AI music, balancing strong ethics and outstanding quality by producing fairly AI trained high-resolution loops that are ready to be made into art by professional producers. Now introducing Collab Club, Lemonaide equips these producers with the tools to train AI models with their own catalogs of music—opening the door to new revenue streams for those artists.

LEMONAIDE Collab Club‘s builds on it’s “Seed” software to add the ability to bring together different creative minds in the form of AI Models. This gives the user the ability to virtually collaborate with an artists through an AI that has been trained on that artists/Producers creative process and Music. The software is based on a subscription model where the base “Seed” program is $9.99 a month with an additional $9.99 a month for each “Collab Club” AI Model of a chart topping producer/Beat Maker.

“The technology and AI training that went into my model is incredible,” says artist Kato on the Track. “I’m just excited to work with the brilliant Lemonaide team to be the first Producer to have their own AI model and offer it to Beat Makers and Producers around the world.”

“All AI models are massive sets of data. We’re taking the bet that people don’t just want to work with an AI model; they want to work with creative materials and creative people,” explains Lemonaide Founder and CEO Michael “MJ” Jacob. “Lemonaide Collab Club connects creators with some of today’s best producers—building a strong creative community while giving artists agency in the AI space.”

As MJ’s work with AI-generated music evolved, he crossed paths with Anirudh Mani who was working as a machine learning scientists for Amazon’s Alexa team at the time while producing music on the side. Anirudh, who approached his production a lot like a computer scientist, didn’t know much about MJ beyond the fact that he was open to experimenting with AI in music. In a moment of complete serendipity, Anirudh sent MJ a Twitter DM asking him to rap on one of his tracks. They met, MJ showed Anirudh Lemonaide 1.0, and the two realized how much they had in common.

Similarly to MJ, Anirudh’s music journey had started early in life—learning the keys as a young boy before being introduced to Audacity in middle school. Although his band had performed in front of thousands of people in India, he set aside his music to pursue an education and career. “I come from a middle class family in India, so the expectation is that first you become an engineer or doctor and then you can find your passion,” says Anirudh, now Lemonaide’s Chief Science Officer. “Sending me abroad for college was a major commitment by my entire family, and one that I am endlessly grateful for.”

Anirudh’s Twitter DM about a feature collab eventually grew into the cofounding of AI startup Lemonaide. Since then, the company has focused on helping musicians find new ways to write, produce, and create, while keeping the artist front and center. Today, Lemonade is determined to do this by building inspiration-sparking generative AI models—all fairly trained on ethically sourced data.

“My ultimate goal for Lemonaide is to create something that a kid stumbles across and find the joy in making music,” says MJ.

“And we are focused on doing it the right way,” adds Anirudh. “Collab Club is our next step in ensuring that producers have their own say and agency over the use of their data as they create new AI-powered revenue streams.”

Conclusion

Lemonaide is an artist-focused music technology company that helps musicians find new ways to write, produce, and create, while keeping the artist front and center. Lemonaide is pioneering the future of what it means for musicians to interact with AI technologies. Lemonaide has already been used by thousands of producers and has helped empower and inspire even more excitement in the creative process. Lemonaide is also a member of Fairly Trained, which has a mission to certify fair training data use in Generative AI.

 

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