Patreon CEO Jack Conte: Adopt AI or Die
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Patreon CEO Jack Conte joins Playback Sessions and addresses the existential threat generative AI poses to the creative economy. After facilitating over $11 billion in payouts to creators, Conte details the raw reality of discovering generative models scraping and cloning his band's signature sound without consent, credit, or compensation. 🚀 Book a Free Skills Assessment with Sonora. https://www.learnwithsonora.com/skills-assessment 👇 Want to go deeper? Join the Playback Sessions community for tabs, breakdowns, and more. https://www.skool.com/playback-community-9570 ⏱️ InstaLoop Pro: https://looper.sonoraintensive.com/ 0:00:00 – Opening 0:01:27 – Creators Have Earned $11 Billion on Patreon 0:02:08 – It Feels Like Resetting the Scoreboard to Zero 0:02:29 – A New Way to Take Advantage of Creative People 0:03:25 – Hopeful for Solutions: Products, Legislation, Demand 0:03:40 – Creators Take a Right Hook and Have to Bleed 0:05:09 – The Batching Secret: 100 Music Videos a Year 0:06:05 – Jack's Superpower: Improvising on the Spot 0:16:39 – Acting in Accordance With What He Believes 0:17:01 – The Silent Films Analogy: 1927 and What It Means Now 0:18:51 – 50,000 Musicians Lost Their Jobs in Three Years 0:19:52 – "Canned Music": The Campaign Against Recorded Sound 0:21:43 – Patreon Will Be Dead in 3 Years. 100%. Dead. 🎸 Follow Playback Sessions on socials: -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/playbacksessions/ -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/playbacksessions -YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Playback-Sessions -Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@playbacksessionspodcast -Spotify: @ Playback Sessions Podcast 🎥 Host: Spencer Handley Guest: Jack Conte Editor: Carl Reeverts, Clayton Hopkins, Evan Bowser Executive Producer: Spencer Handley ##JackConte #PatreonCEO #AIandMusic #CreatorEconomy #PlaybackSessions #Pomplamoose #ScaryPockets #AICreativity #MusicAndTechnology #MusicBusiness #CreatorRights #FutureOfMusic #AITraining #IndependentMusician #MusicPodcast #SilentFilms #Patreon #MusicianLife #AIDebate #JackConteInterview # Sonora