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AI-Generated Music Without Stealing The Melody

An episode of the Thinking On Paper podcast, hosted by Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson, titled "AI-Generated Music Without Stealing The Melody " was published on February 5, 2026 and runs 9 minutes.

February 5, 2026 ·9m · Thinking On Paper

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Summary

We taught technology to generate music before we taught it how to assign fair credit to musicians. Nicholas Ponari explains why Overtune rejects one-prompt AI music generation in favor of human-in-the-loop creation. Unlike platforms trained on scraped catalogs, Overtune’s AI is built on licensed music, starting with ~20,000 loops produced in-house. Producers can submit stems voluntarily, creating a clean foundation for ethical training and attribution.The platform uses vector-based audio embeddings to measure how much each stem contributes to a generated track. This enables automated attribution and proportional royalty distribution when songs are commercialized. Contributions are weighted mathematically, with clear thresholds to credit primary and secondary influences while avoiding excessive fragmentation Please enjoy the show.Cheers,Mark and JeremyPS: Subscribe so other curious minds like you can find our channel.Other ways to connect with us:⁠Listen to every podcast⁠Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠Follow us on ⁠X⁠Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Read our ⁠Substack⁠Email: [email protected]

Episode Description

We taught technology to generate music before we taught it how to assign fair credit to musicians. Nicholas Ponari explains why Overtune rejects one-prompt AI music generation in favor of human-in-the-loop creation. 


Unlike platforms trained on scraped catalogs, Overtune’s AI is built on licensed music, starting with ~20,000 loops produced in-house. Producers can submit stems voluntarily, creating a clean foundation for ethical training and attribution.


The platform uses vector-based audio embeddings to measure how much each stem contributes to a generated track. This enables automated attribution and proportional royalty distribution when songs are commercialized. 


Contributions are weighted mathematically, with clear thresholds to credit primary and secondary influences while avoiding excessive fragmentation 


Please enjoy the show.


Cheers,


Mark and Jeremy


PS: Subscribe so other curious minds like you can find our channel.



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