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\n\tMike Sabath isn\u2019t interested in cutting corners. The 28-year-old has been in music for a long time, both as an artist as well as a producer-songwriter with an extensive list of collaborators throughout his career. He primarily works with British singers Raye<\/a> and Jade, but he\u2019s also manned the boards for Niall Horan, Shawn Mendes, Zara Larsson, Sabrina Carpenter, and more over the past decade. AI tools aren\u2019t part of that process. \u201cI don\u2019t use AI in my rooms, and I haven\u2019t worked with people that do yet, to be honest,\u201d Sabath tells Rolling Stone. <\/em>However, it\u2019s top of mind outside of the studio, where he\u2019s frequently having conversations with artists and industry executives about the urgency around the growing technology.<\/p>\n \n\tSabath gets chills when he thinks of artists like Raye, with whom he\u2019s worked since her 2023 debut My 21st Century Blues<\/em>, and Rosal\u00eda<\/a>, who he\u2019s long admired. He qualifies both as masters of their craft \u2014 and hopes people consider artists like them when conversation turns to AI and what it\u2019s threatening to replace. \u201cThe art of mastery in general has continued to be diluted over the years, and technology is a huge part of that,\u201d Sabath says.<\/p>\n \n\tWhile artists are focusing on sharpening their skills and expanding their reach, their releases are being used to train models that replicate the output of real musicians quicker than performers can safeguard their intellectual property. Discussions like the ones Sabath has been having are now spilling into public forums and across social media as artists like SZA<\/a>, Doja<\/a> Cat, Kenny Beats, and more voice their frustration.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe greatest tool that the big money folks use is instilling the feeling of fear and that we can\u2019t stop it,\u201d Sabath says, noting that there\u2019s a constant push towards normalizing AI. A Rolling Stone<\/em> report <\/a>from earlier this year noted all the ways in which AI was entering the workflows of top producers, songwriters, and artists. Earlier this year, Diplo went viral after telling artists who are hesitant to embrace AI: \u201cYou need to adapt or just give up and become an Uber driver until everyone has a Waymo.\u201d Sabath isn\u2019t convinced an AI future is as inevitable as it\u2019s being made out to be. \u201cPeople go, \u2018Well, it\u2019s just the wave, let\u2019s just ride it.\u2019 It\u2019s like, well, we made the wave. Humans made the wave,\u201d he says. \u201cYou locked in and made Suno<\/a> real and are continuing to make it better.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n