This month’s biggest news on AI music
More than 200 musicians sign an open letter against the use of AI in music.
Many musical artists including Stevie Wonder, Billie Eilish, and Niki Minaj have signed a petition to stop using AI to mimic artists’ voices. The Act has stopped the release of a program intended to mimic human voice using AI, created by Open AI, the developers of Chat GPT.
A song using an AI replica of Spongebob Squarepants’ voice goes viral on Spotify and YouTube.
“The Bottom 2”, a song created by the artist Glorb has over 15 million streams on Spotify and 14 million views on YouTube. Due to the song’s extreme popularity, it has brought up several legal issues concerning copyright law and AI. AI covers have been an issue within social media for quite some time, but none have had as much popularity as Glorb, so it naturally brings much media attention.
Drake uses AI in beef with Kendrick Lamar
In recent weeks, the tension between rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake has resulted in a large beef, causing each artist to realize several diss tracks directed at each other. on the 19th, Drake released a track called '“Taylor Made Freestyle”, which heavily featured AI replication of 2-Pac and Snoop Dogg’s voices. Drake chose the voices to taunt Lamar, as he idolizes these artists. The track had to be taken down soon after due to legal reasons regarding the “No Fakes Act”.