AI song with fake ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ vocals creates furore, pulled down
Hindustan TimesArtificial Intelligence is growing faster than human imagination, everyday setting the bar higher by clinching something unprecedented. Now it has rattled the music industry by creating a fake Drake and The Weeknd song, Heart on My Sleeve. ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ Generated using artificial intelligence the song amassed over 11 million views across seven promotional videos after being uploaded on April 15. It read, “Offer in from Republic.” Worth noting is that the three artists whose artistic likeness was lifted to create “Heart on My Sleeve” — The Weeknd, Drake, and Metro Boomin — all three have licensing and marketing deals that distribute their music through Republic Records. "The training of generative AI using our artists' music as well as the availability of infringing content created with generative AI on DSPs, begs the question as to which side of history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on: the side of artists, fans and human creative expression, or on the side of deep fakes, fraud and denying artists their due compensation," a UMG spokesman told Billboard.
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