London Social media and music streaming took off on Tuesday after a backlash from publisher giant Universal Music Group, which said it violated copyright laws by using artificial intelligence to duplicate the voices of renowned musicians Drake and The Weeknd. Removed from the platform.
The AI-generated song “Heart on My Sleeve” went viral over the weekend, garnering more than 8.5 million plays on TikTok before being removed from the platform on Tuesday. The song, which the artist never actually sang, was also removed from many YouTube channels, but versions were still available on both platforms.
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The full version was dropped by major music streaming platforms after 254,000 plays on Spotify.
Universal Music Group, which releases music by both Drake and The Weeknd, has told the BBC that digital platforms have a “legal and ethical responsibility” to prevent the use of services that harm artists. .
The creator of the song, identified only by the handle “@ghostwriter”, has a now-deleted YouTube account where the track was created from existing video clips using AI software trained on musicians’ voices. claimed.
Music journalist Hattie Lindart told CBS News on Tuesday: “It’s very compelling that there are so many Drake trucks that the AI can train.”
Neither artist has publicly responded to the song, but Drake has previously been critical of his voice being cloned using artificial intelligence.
“This is the final straw, AI,” he said in a now-deleted post on Instagram after watching a fan-made AI-generated video in which he appeared to be rapping.
This latest AI controversy follows the launch of Google’s Bard AI software last month, when tech giants Microsoft and Google appeared to go head-to-head as they developed competing AI-powered “chatbot” technologies. occurred in
In an interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Perry, Google senior vice president James Manicka said, “AI itself will raise questions. Could Hemingway write better short stories? Perhaps, but a bard could write a million books before Hemingway finished one.” Broadcast on Sundays. “Imagine that level of automation across the economy.”
