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The Truth About AI Music — With Tim Fraser & Anna Mylee
Podcast exploring AI in Music Projects
Yoshi Soornack & James Garner
December 19, 2025
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Can We Ever Trust Music Again? Inside the Collision Between AI and Authenticity
The Statistic Nobody Wants to Discuss
Imagine walking into a bar and hearing your favourite song. The production is flawless, the arrangement ideally suited to the venue's atmosphere. You close your eyes and let the melody wash over you. Then someone leans across and says, "That's AI." Your eyes snap open. Does it feel different now? More hollow? The same, but somehow less real?
This is the dilemma facing the music industry in 2025, and it's far more nuanced and troubling than most of us realise. Two accomplished musicians, drummer Anna Mylee and songwriter Tim Fraser, have been grappling with this exact question. Their insights reveal a problem that extends far beyond concerns about technological displacement. It touches on something more fundamental: what happens to authenticity, artistry, and the very soul of music when machines can create work indistinguishable from human creation?
What emerges from their analysis is not a simple story of technology threatening livelihoods. Instead, they paint a complex portrait of an industry already hollowed out by decades of poor decision-making, now facing an accelerant to its own decline.
In this episode of the Project Flux podcast, we explore the intersection of AI and the music industry with professional musicians Anna Mylee and Tim Fraser. They discuss the impact of AI on music creation, the ethical implications of AI-generated music, and the future of songwriting in an increasingly automated world. The conversation delves into personal experiences with AI, the importance of authenticity in music, and the potential for a divide between AI-generated and human-created music.
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