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- Kakul Srivastava, CEO of sample-library Splice, says AI-written workplace documents degrade real discussion because 'once you can't tell whether there's a person behind the words, the conversation you have about it becomes a different conversation, and a worse one'
- Splice acquired Spitfire Audio and ships AI products built to keep humans central, with Srivastava publicly rejecting the 'push-button, get-song' model that has made competitors like Suno controversial, including on a Decoder episode last year
- Srivastava previously held executive roles at Flickr, Yahoo, GitHub, and Adobe, and was on the early team at Tiny Speck — the company whose Flash-based game Glitch failed before the team pivoted into Slack
- Glitch failed, Srivastava says, because it was built on Flash just as Adobe stopped investing in it and ran on PCs as the industry moved to phone gaming, a missed shift she says she 'let down the creativity of the people who built something beautiful' over
- Splice's sample library has supplied loops used in Lisa's 'Money' and Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso,' and Srivastava says the platform is remote-first with no hallway conversations to lose to AI
Why it matters: Srivastava's human-centered stance — rejecting 'push-button, get-song' AI while applying the same skepticism to AI emails — sets Splice apart from generative-AI competitors like Suno, even as the platform's loops continue to anchor chart-topping hits like Lisa's 'Money' and Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso.' Her credibility across Flickr, GitHub, and Adobe gives that philosophy uncommon weight in the AI-music debate.
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