Filed today · Mar 31, 2026
If the tool wrote the hook, the split should reflect who supplied the judgment—not only who pressed render.
Ed Newton-Rex
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As majors pilot generative stem tools inside pro writers' rooms.
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Shifts music's AI fight from permission to economics: when hooks become semi-automated, credit becomes a proxy for who is still risking taste in public.
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