Following the success of IA Heart on My Sleeve, which went viral with multi-platinum artists Drake and The Weeknds Deepfakes, pop star Grimes invited fans to make music with her voice.
On Sunday night he tweeted: "I will share 50% of the royalties from an AI generated hit song using my voice. You enter into the same contract with every artist you work with. Feel free to use my voice with impunity. I have no labels and no legal ties."
He added that he's open to anything he wants. "I'm just interested in what's going on and I'm interested in being the guinea pig," he said, hailing the end of open source art and copyright.
A stark contrast to Universal Music Group, who were quick to release Heart on My Sleeve to social media and music services like Spotify, Tidal and Apple Music earlier this month as the song began to climb the charts. .
"UMG's success rests on taking new technologies and making them usable for our artists, as we have been doing for some time with our own innovations in artificial intelligence," the company said in a statement to Variety. “This trains generative AI on our artists' music (which is a violation of our contract and copyright laws) as well as AI-generated content generated on DSP queries. Everyone involved in the music ecosystem is asking themselves which side of history they want to be on: on the side of artists, fans, and human creative expression, or on the side of pervasive fraud, deception, and artist underpayment. These cases show why platforms have a fundamental legal and ethical responsibility to prevent artists from using their services in a way that harms them. The involvement of our platform partners in these issues encourages us because they understand that they need to be part of the solution."
Grimes has long viewed AI as a techno artist. In 2020, her debut Billboard dance-charting album, Miss Anthropocene , was named for the impact of technology on Earth's ecology and climate in the post-industrial revolution era.
Also in 2020, she created an AI-generated lullaby for her first child with algorithmic background music startup Endel with SpaceX founder Elon Musk, naming them X Æ A-12, which Grimes says stands for artificial intelligence. .
"I thank the Ableton admins every day for cleaning up my music, but I worry that AI will overtake us and make musicians obsolete. It's inevitable," he warned at Web Summit 2020.
With millions of followers on YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter, and hits like "Oblivion," "Kill V. Mime," and "Go," his call for AI collaboration could be a game changer.
Tiktok deepfakes are very popular. Chris Umme, founder of VFX house Metaphysic.ai, confirmed that DeepTomCruise is releasing videos of the actor mixing with the real Paris Hilton.
Telegram even has a bot called Forever Voices, developed by tech founder John Mayer, that trains an AI to copy celebrities' speech and tone and lets fans chat with it using the ChatGPT API. Watch the CNBC demo below.
Grimes' voice is now available for chat, Meyers confirmed Monday afternoon. He said that we want to support music.
Updated with comments from DeepTomCruise creator Chris Ume and Forever Voices creator John Meyers.
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