Here’s the basics: there’s a new track called “Heart on My Sleeve” by a TikTok user called @ghostwriter877 with AI-generated vocals that sound like Drake and The Weeknd.
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This prompted Drake and The Weeknd’s label Universal Music Group to issue a sternly-worded statement about the dangers of AI, which specifically says that using generative AI infringes its copyrights.
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The first legal problem with using AI to make a song with vocals that sound like they’re from Drake is that the final product isn’t a copy of anything… Instead, UMG and Getty Images and publishers around the world are claiming that collecting all the training data for the AI is copyright infringement
The bottom line is that there is no clear precedent in place dictating the way generative AI relates to existing copyright law. This leaves a bit of a grey zone that creators, for now, are free to explore.
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.”
A Discord server called AI Hub hosts a large community of AI music creators behind some of the most viral AI songs. This server was created on March 25 and now has over 21,000 users.
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UTOP-AI, the album created by the Discord community, features original songs using AI-generated vocals from famous artists including Travis Scott, Drake, Baby Keem, and Playboi Carti. Qo, Snoop Dogg, and twenty other people involved in the AI Hub community worked on it.
This album puts into practice what drew Qo and Dogg to AI music in the first place—the ability to create material for artists they wish to hear more of.