An AI-generated song that reproduces the voices of Drake and The Weeknd was pulled from streaming services on Tuesday. Going viral This week, NBC News reports.
Produced by a TikTok musician going to Ghostwriter977, the track features a spare piano beat and his recycled Drake lyrics. If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late mixtape era.
The song, titled “My heart is on my arm”, was briefly featured on Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Amazon, YouTube and Tidal before being taken down. .
Universal Music Group, which releases music for both Drake and The Weekend through Republic Records, told the BBC: “Prolific AI training using our artists’ music (which represents a breach of both our agreements and copyright law). as the availability of generated infringing content in DSPs [digital service providers]It raises the question of which side of history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on: on the side of artists, fans, and human creative expression, or on the side of deep dishonesty, fraud and depriving artists of the compensation they deserve?
Interestingly, the news about the fake Drake song comes the day an AI-generated Oasis album started circulating. UK-based indie band Breezer has named the project brilliantly. rebelAdding an AI version of Liam Gallagher’s voice to Breezer’s original tracks.
Breezer said Guard In an interview, he said, “We’re tired of waiting for Oasis to remake. Now all we have is Liam and his brother trying to outdo each other. But that’s not the Oasis. So we got an AI-modeled Liam to step into some tunes originally written for a short-lived but much-loved band called Breezer.
AI-powered music is nothing new. In 2021, The Daily Beast reported on FN Meka, the “first artificial intelligence robot rapper” who at the time had 9 million TikTok followers and boasted a lucrative side hustle selling portable NFTs.
The difference two years make is that AI technology has evolved to the point where it can eerily replicate megastars like Drake and The Weeknd. And if such artists can be scammed so easily, record companies can expect to blow the mole with increasingly sophisticated AI heists over the years.