Grimes, pictured in 2021, said she wants to be a “guinea pig” for music creators working with Artificial Intelligence.
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Grimes, pictured in 2021, said she wants to be a “guinea pig” for music creators working with Artificial Intelligence.
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Musician Grimes is inviting creators to use AI-generated versions of voices to create new music, saying she can even provide raw audio files to facilitate.
“We’re creating a program that can simulate my voice well, but we can also upload original snippets and samples for people to train themselves,” she said. wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
The pop singer, whose real name is Claire Boucher, also said she would “split 50% of the royalties on any AI-generated hit song that uses my voice.”
“The agreement is the same as I do with any artist I work with. Feel free to use my voice without penalty. I have no trademark and no legal obligations,” she said. more.
Courts have yet to weigh in on the use of AI in music, and it’s not clear any profits will be legally obtained. Grimes asks the creator subscribe to music with her website.
Fans immediately posted links to songs they’ve created that sound like her. The Canadian artist said she is looking forward to becoming a “guinea pig” for such projects.
The musician, singer, songwriter and record producer seems to have been inspired by the release of “Heart on My Sleeve” last week, a viral hit that cloned Drake and The Weeknd’s vocals, but was later removed from the streaming and social media platforms after the record label announced Copyright infringement.
Neither Boucher nor her team responded to a question from NPR about what she might do in the event someone might create a song with offensive, racist or violent lyrics. But she addressed the issue in a follow-up post. tweetstating that they “can ONLY perform takedowns on purely malicious lyrics with nasty vocals.”
She begged the creators not to be “the worst”.
“That’s the only rule,” she wrote. “Rly doesn’t like to follow the rules but also doesn’t want to be responsible for a Nazi anthem unless it’s some producer’s joke, I guess. – I want to avoid the related stuff. to politics but If it was a little meme with your friends, we probably won’t punish that. Maybe only if smthn goes viral and anti-abortion or something like that.”
Then she said she wasn’t even sure, however, if she can legally ask for songs to be taken down.
This isn’t the first time Boucher has considered supporting AI-generated art or her first foray into AI songwriting. In 2020, she partnered with mood music startup Endel to launch an AI-powered baby lullaby app. She speak New York Times she was inspired to create “better baby sleep” for her son, X Æ A-XII Musk. His father is Elon Musk.
“I think AI is great,” she said in the interview. “I just feel, creatively, I think AI can replace humans. And so I think at some point we’re going to want, as a species, to discuss where AI is going to be. how to participate in the arts.”
