AI Music Startup Lemonaide Introduces New Collaboration Tool Promising ‘Ethical’ AI Models

Lemonaide, which describes itself as an “artist-first creative AI” platform, has launched a new tool called ‘Collab Club,’ that allows professional producers to train their own AI models using their own catalogs. The launch comes a little over a year after Lemonaide and beat buying and selling platform BeatStars struck a strategic alliance with the aim “to establish a precedent for ethical AI business models in the music industry.” Lemonaide says it seeks to address the challenges in the AI-generated music landscape, which it says is currently divided between ethically trained models with limited creative potential and unethical models that excel in quality but exploit artists’ works. Founded in 2021 by hip-hop artist Michael “MJ” Jacob, Lemonaide says its Collab Club platform “sits at the center of this generative-AI music Venn Diagram.” The company claims to combine ethical practices with quality output by producing “fairly trained high-resolution loops that are ready to be made into art by professional producers.” “All AI models are massive sets of data. We’re taking the bet that people don’t just want to work with an AI model; they want to work with creative materials and creative people,” Jacob said in a statement. “Lemonaide Collab Club connects creators with some of today’s best producers — building a strong creative community while giving artists agency in the AI space.” “My ultimate goal for Lemonaide is to create something that a kid stumbles across and finds the joy in making music,” Jacob added.