AI song with fake ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ vocals creates furore, pulled down | Trending

Artificial Intelligence is growing faster than human imagination, everyday setting the bar higher clinching something unprecedented. Now it has rattled the music industry creating a fake Drake and The Weeknd song, Heart on My Sleeve.

‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’

Generated using artificial intelligence the song amassed over 11 million views across seven promotional videos after being uploaded on April 15. The record was created from scratch the anonymous TikTok user Ghostwriter977 with automated vocals of Drake and The Weeknd. With both having nothing to do with creating it.
Terming it a ‘modern Napster moment’, Ghostwriter977 uploaded the screen recording of a Tweet describing the faux collaboration. It read, “Offer in from Republic.” Worth noting is that the three arts whose artic likeness was lifted to create “Heart on My Sleeve” — The Weeknd, Drake, and Metro Boomin — all three have licensing and marketing deals that dribute their music through Republic Records.
The song has been taken down on the back of copyright concerns but is floating around at few spaces.

Fans are astounded, no one in their wildest of imagination can pinpoint anything that delinks Drake and The Weeknd from the song. The lyrics has interest context to Selena Gomez, who reportedly used to date The Weeknd. A fake Drake lyric about Gomez even name-checks her other ex, Justin Bieber.Raps the AI Drake: “I came in with my ex like Selena to flex, ay / Bumpin’ Justin Bieber the fever ain’t left, ay.””The training of generative AI using our arts’ music (which represents both a breach of our agreements and a violation of copyright law) as well as the availability of infringing content created with generative AI on DSPs, begs the question as to which side of hory all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on: the side of arts, fans and human creative expression, or on the side of deep fakes, fraud and denying arts their due compensation,” a UMG spokesman told Billboard. “We’re encouraged the engagement of our platform partners on these issues – as they recognize they need to be part of the solution.”

Experts following the industry for long feel that scariest part about the song is that it’s Good. It has intensified alarms on how AI driven content can demolish intellectual properties and create a world of deep fakes that will be too hard to handle.

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Vertika Kanaujia is Editor Audience Growth at Hindustan Times and oversees the website’s coverage of business news, health, technology and internet culture. She is a Chevening Scholar and a Columbia Journalism University Fellow. Vertika has been a journal for more than 18 years. After starting her career as a business journal in TV she has worked with various leading news channels. You can email her at vertika.kanaujia@htdigital.in.
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