Speechless (insert vocal isolation joke). Thank you @TIME for recognizing AudioShake’s stem separation technology as one of the Best Inventions of 2023. More on why in the year of AI everywhere, our work stood out: time.com/collection/best-inv…

A$AP Rocky’s stance on AI being used in music nowadays: “It depends. I feel like when guys like Flexin’ Phoenix [Fenix Flexin], whatever his name is, and Tyga — I don’t know their process of how they make it, but I know when they made it, they caught a lot of backlash and shit like that.” “Me, personally, I prefer to do things myself, practically. Say if there's a song that's already out from, say, Kanye [West’s] Graduation. Let's say “Good Morning,” you want to take Kanye's lyrics off, but you want the instrumental, not that you can't just find the instrumental online, but say it was hard to find the instrumental, what you could easily do is use AI to split the stems and take away his vocals so that you could actually rap on it.” “AI has a lot of negative connotations. I don't think when it's used in certain ways that it's necessarily a right or wrong thing.” “AI is supposed to be a tool in that sense. If somebody does a totally AI-generated song where all they did was prompt something, then I think that that's their thing. But who am I to say what's standard and what's not?” “I'm just doing me out here and I'm doing my music practically—the right way. I'm really tapping with musicians, producers, beat makers, just to convey my sound and develop my sound.”