Should Companies Cash In on Generated Music

**Jaedan** (0:00)
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**Jamie** (0:28)
The music platform TIDAL has just announced that they are demonetizing AI-generated music. So they haven't officially banned it yet, but they are now not monetizing it anymore, which for those of you who are doing the AI music side hustle, it's probably a little bit disappointing or a little scary anyways. I know Jaedan, this is Jaedan's bread and butter. He loves this hustle. So today he's gonna talk all about it and some of the implications for other platforms and things like that. But before we do, Jaedan, why don't you tell me about our school community?

**Jaedan** (0:59)
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