The Internet Is Suddenly Full Of AI-Generated Hip-Hop
The first AI clip that Jered Chavez, a 19 -year -old student at the University of Southern Florida, Posted on Instagram was a mentality: Drake, Ye and Kendrick Lamar singing “Fukashigi no Karte”, the closing song of Rascal does not dream of Bunny Girl SenpaiA popular animated series on the Internet. “I thought it was a cool concept,” said Chavez. “I am clearly not the first to start it, but what means that my page stands out is that I try to put a little touch on it and add a comedy aspect.”
The student said that the comic approach is partly designed to isolate it from the risks associated with the creation of the work. “With this area of AI, there is a lot of controversy and ethical concerns,” added Chavez. “Obviously, people who make this music and use this AI take on the resemblance of someone and, most of the time without authorization, create something that essentially puts words in people’s mouths.”
Chavez stressed that this could be particularly annoying with regard to the use of a generative AI to reproduce the voices of dead artists. “They are not there to give their approval, and we don’t really know what they would like,” he said. It does not seem to disturb those behind Bohemianryfof.aiwhich allows users to lead a choir of 16 versions generated by the AI of Freddie Mercury through perhaps the most famous success of Queen.
Although a consensus forms that the generator is potentially embarrassing, no one really knows if amateur creators are on a trembling ground trembling or not. Pieawsome said he was thinking of what he was doing like the equivalent of modern a game or producing a fanfiction based on a popular book. “This is our version of this,” he said. “It may be a good thing. Maybe it’s a bad thing. I don’t know. But it’s a kind of inevitable thing that was going to happen.”
Jonathan Bailey, former Soundwide technology director, a music technology company, has a different grip. “I think you can make a persuasive argument according to which the use of AI to revive Jay-Z’s voice to make him rape or sing something he has never created is a form of identity theft,” he said.
“I’m not a lawyer,” added Bailey. Lawyer Donald Passman of Gang, shoots, rowing, Brown & Passman, Inc., who represented major artists such as Adele and Taylor Swift throughout his career, refused to weigh on the use of AI to imitate artists for this story. He said he didn’t mean anything incompatible with a position he could adopt later in court. “It’s far too new,” said Passman about technology.
Some music labels already seem to have decided. The Discord servers focused on AI have reported that many YouTube channels that publish music generated by AI have been struck by copyright withdrawals. “I guess it’s a way to attack it,” said Chavez. “But honestly, now this technology is there, I don’t think people will never stop using it.
“Responsibility lies in the judgment of people who make [AI-generated music]”, He continued.” I try to use my best judgment. It is a kind of new territory for everyone. »»
