Grimes Tells Fans To Deepfake Her Music, Will Split 50% Royalties With AI
https://www.forbes.com/sites/martineparis/2023/04/24/grimes-tells-fans-to-deepfake-drake-her-welcomes-collaboration-with-ai/?sh=575d223f15c0

In the wake of the AI-generated hit Heart on My Sleeve going viral with deepfakes of multi-platinum artists Drake and The Weeknd, pop star Grimes has invited her fans to create music with her voice.

On Sunday night she tweeted, “I’ll split 50% royalties on any successful AI generated song that uses my voice. Same deal as I would with any artist i collab with. Feel free to use my voice without penalty. I have no label and no legal bindings.”

She added that she’s open to anything anyone wants. “Im just curious what even happens and interested in being a Guinea pig,” She said she welcomes the open sourcing of art and an end to copyright.

A position in sharp contrast to Universal Music Group which moved swiftly to take down Heart on My Sleeve across social media and music services like Spotify, Tidal and Apple Music as the song started to climb the charts earlier this month.

“UMG’s success has been, in part, due to embracing new technology and putting it to work for our artists–as we have been doing with our own innovation around AI for some time already,” the company explained in a statement to Variety. “With that said, however, the training of generative AI using our artists’ 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 history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on: the side of artists, fans and human creative expression, or on the side of deep fakes, fraud and denying artists their due compensation. These instances demonstrate why platforms have a fundamental legal and ethical responsibility to prevent the use of their services in ways that harm artists. We’re encouraged by the engagement of our platform partners on these issues–as they recognize they need to be part of the solution.”

Facing the inevitable

Grimes has long embraced AI as a techno artist. In 2020, her first album to top the Billboard dance charts was Miss Anthropocene, named for the effects of technology on Earth’s ecology and climate in the post-Industrial Revolution era.

It was also in 2020 that she teamed up with the algorithmic mood music startup Endel to create an AI-generated lullaby for her first child with SpaceX founder Elon Musk who they named X Æ A-12 with the Elven spelling of AI, according to Grimes.

“Everyday I thank the overlords of Ableton for cleaning up my tracks, but I do worry though that AI will outpace us and make musicians obsolete. It’s inevitable,” she warned at Web Summit 2020.

With millions of followers across YouTube, Instagram and Twitter and hits like Oblivion, Kill V. Maim and Go, her call for AI collaboration could be a game changer.

Deepfakes are wildly popular on TikTok.

There’s even a bot on Telegram called Forever Voices created by tech founder John Meyer who has trained the AI to copy the speech and tone of celebrities and has enabled fans to chat with it via the ChatGPT API. See the CNBC demo below.

Grimes’ voice is now available to chat with, Meyers confirmed Monday afternoon. “We’re looking into supporting singing,” he said.

Inside the Discord Where Thousands of Rogue Producers Are Making AI Music
On Saturday, they released an entire album using an AI-generated copy of Travis Scott’s voice, and labels are trying to kill it.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wdj7/inside-the-discord-where-thousands-of-rogue-producers-are-making-ai-music

Viewer comments:

AI has its place. If it speeds up the process for mixing and getting the same results as 100% manual then all good.

Your prediction for music becoming generic has already happened via AI, although not as directly. AI informs the music industry regarding demographics, what sells the most, what sells the least, and the industry has responded by trying to create more of the style that sells the most. This results in cookie-cutter artists that mostly occupy the pop music genre. AI used as you describe may eliminate the need for human producers in the pop genre. That may be a good thing for music, because the great producers may be forced to work with less mainstream artists, helping these artists compete sound-wise.

We’ve had computers design a lot of our custom DSP algorithms, even 10 years ago. It is unfortunate how AI / ML has become kind of like a sticker on product packaging, like it was a selling point on its own merit. Plugins should be judged by their acoustic performance & features and not the under-the-hood stuff which is really meaningless to the end user, and is also repeatedly demonstrated to be exploited by the fact that truthfulness of such inner details can’t really be verified.

http://www.ugress.com/static-troopers/?fbclid=IwAR1TeMcsqqB_vUkNzbjH8Xm6NqzC4k6fhqQI2j1tyU6FfrS14jmLRxEYBs4

The first full-length mainstream music album co-written with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) was released on 12 January and experts believe that the science behind it could lead to a whole new style of music composition.

Popular music has always been fertile ground for technological innovation. From the electric guitar to the studio desk, laptops and the wah-wah pedal, music has the ability to absorb new inventions with ease.

Now, the release of Hello World, the first entire studio album co-created by artists and AI could mark a watershed in music composition

Stemming from the FlowMachines project, funded by the EU’s European Research Council, the album is the fruits of the labour of 15 artists, music producer Benoit Carré, aka Skygge, and creative software designed by computer scientist and AI expert François Pachet.

‘The system … analyses the music in terms of beats, melody and harmony,’ said Pachet, ‘And then outputs an original piece of music based on that style.’

‘The core (problem) was how to do that so that (it) takes into account user constraints. Why? Because if you compose music, actually you never do something from scratch from A to Z,’

What is this latest madness? you may ask. Well, it’s 2017 and it’s Christmas so someone has obviously had a crack a training a neural network to write carols.

The results are at least entertaining, even if they might offend the devout – or simply those not keen on the idea of Santa popping out a baby Jesus or people getting it on with snowmen.

Christmas Carols, generated by a neural network
http://aiweirdness.com/post/168770625987/christmas-carols-generated-by-a-neural-network