Fans loved her new album. The thing was, she hadn’t released one | “It was music that was AI-generated, but it had been cleverly trained on me.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clydz8d03dvo
Fans loved her new album. The thing was, she hadn’t released one | “It was music that was AI-generated, but it had been cleverly trained on me.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clydz8d03dvo
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“Last month, award-winning singer Emily Portman got a message from a fan praising her new album and saying “English folk music is in good hands”.
That would normally be a compliment, but the Sheffield-based artist was puzzled.
So she followed a link the fan had posted and was taken to what appeared to be her latest release. “But I didn’t recognise it because I hadn’t released a new album,” Portman says.
“I clicked through and discovered an album online everywhere – on Spotify and iTunes and all the online platforms.
The 10 tracks had names such as Sprig of Thyme and Silent Hearth – which were “uncannily close” to titles she might choose. It was something that Portman, who won a BBC Folk Award in 2013, found “really creepy”.
When she clicked to listen, the voice – supposedly hers – was a bit off but sang in “a folk style probably closest to mine that AI could produce”, she says. The instrumentation was also eerily similar.
There’s now a growing trend, though, for established (but not superstar) artists to be targeted by fake albums or songs that suddenly appear on their pages on Spotify and other streaming services. Even dead musicians have had AI-generated “new” material added to their catalogues.
Portman doesn’t know who put the album up under her name or why.”
Unfortunately AI music domination is inevitable. The masses are not going to reject music on principle alone. Catchy songs will spread like wildfire throughout social media and eventually infiltrate everywhere. The attempt at monetization is going to be an epic cluster. Muscians will still make music, but digital sales will be canibalized by endless AI remixes. Sad.
can she “claim” the album so that all money from streaming that album goes to her?
Honestly I couldn’t care less where my music is coming from. If AI can make music on par with good human musicians, then why not?
That’s disgusting. I would be so creeped out, too. I’m not even talking about money. Just to have AI copy the art that pours from your soul… What a frickin horror show.
Genuinely a crime against humanity (in the literal sense) to do this
Spotify needs to work on clearly identifying AI generated tracks / artists and then give users the option to block it. Anytime I notice an AI artist I block them, but this is obviously very inefficient
I feel like musicians are having their jobs stolen by robots.
I’ve come across music that I really loved and enjoyed before I even realized it was AI generated. I didn’t pay for it though.
Just make sure to financially support any real artists that you enjoy listening to. It’s more important now than ever.
Wow this is a bad way to get attention. How clear can bait be?
Re record the ai songs and release them for yourself, fuck em.
The desperation for AI related news now leads to articles about songs with 101 listens as destroying the market.