Eminem AI’s ‘Cat Rap’ creator Grandayy has received a copyright strike for his now-deleted popular YouTube video.
On Sunday (April 2), the Maltese YouTuber filed a letter from the video streaming platform confirming copyright infringement filed by Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), which signed a worldwide exclusive management deal with Eminem in 2007. posted.
“Universal Music Group just decided to copyright my AI Eminem Cat Rap video,” he tweeted, along with a screenshot of his strike message. “Normally they just claim and monetize videos like this, but for some reason they really wanted AI Eminem to be taken down.”
A copyright infringement warning on Grandayy’s channel may result in his account being suspended in the future. “To prevent that, please do not upload videos containing copyrighted content that you are not authorized to use,” YouTube told him in a message.
Universal Music Group has decided to infringe the copyright of my AI Eminem Cat Rap video. Normally they just claim and monetize videos like this, but for some reason they really wanted AI Eminem to take it down. pic.twitter.com/2ky4AYOf8U
— Dr. Grandayy (@grandayy) April 2, 2023
AI Slim Shady’s “Cat Rap” video has generated a lot of commentary since its debut. So much so that it was featured on her February episode of her popular HBO talk show. last night with john oliver.
Oliver, who included the video in his larger segment on artificial intelligence, explained that the video was created by giving ChatGPT a prompt to “write an Eminem song about cats.” We called the resulting video “amazing”.
“Cat Rap” has a lot of fans on Twitter, and after hearing it on Oliver’s show, I became an instant fan of the song. “Well, is last week’s Tonight’s A.I. Eminem’s cat song a little dangerous?” wrote one fan.
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Eminem’s “cat rap” controversy is just the latest AI hoopla in hip-hop. Some of his AI remedies have garnered more positive responses, such as Will Smith’s infamous Oscar Chris Rock slap in AI, while others have been artificially created. faces backlash.
On March 31, an AI-generated poem by JAY-Z went viral, raising concerns from Young Guru, 9th Wonder, and DJ Clark Kent, who called for government intervention.
Hov’s esteemed engineer shared a digitally generated vocal on his Instagram page on Friday (March 31). That was enough for Guru to sound the alarm in the direction his AI was going.
“I have been trying to tell everyone that this is the current state of AI. Once the genie is out of the box, you can put him back in,” Guru wrote on his Instagram page.
