Last month, when the viral AI-generated “Drake” song was blowing up, the musician Grimes told fans that she would split royalties “on any successful AI generated song that uses my voice.”
I am honestly surprised by the extent that she followed through with this.
Grimes subsequently released software designed to assist in the generation of these songs—“If you go to elf.tech u can upload ur voice singing or record directly into the app… It will output the same audio but with my voice.”
She recently spoke with Joe Coscarelli at The New York Times about some of the music that has been produced so far.
People keep getting really upset, being like, “I want to hear something that a human made!” And I’m like, humans made all of this. You still have to write the song, produce the song and sing the vocal. The part that is A.I. is taking the harmonics and the timbre of the vocal and moving them to be consistent with my voice, as opposed to the person’s original voice. It’s like a new microphone.