Singer Kehlani is reacting to reports of an AI R&B AI artist named Xania Monet “signing” a multi-million-dollar record deal.
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Chart-Topping AI R&B Artist Xania Monet ‘Signs’ Multi-Million-Dollar Record Deal
According to Billboard, the artificial intelligent artist is powered by a Mississippi woman name Telisha “Nikki” Jones, who writes her own lyrics but uses the AI platform Suno to turn her lyrics into music with a face.
Billboard adds that the AI artist has been climbing the charts with millions of streams and has now just signed a hefty record deal. Reportedly, Jones signed a $3 million agreement with ex-Interscope Records executive Neil Jacobson and his indie label Hallwood Media. The move marks the latest advance of AI into daily American life.
Per Billboard, the U.S. Copyright Office issued a major report earlier this year. On January 29, the office claimed that using AI as an “assistive tool” for human expression would be fair game. However, it noted that copyrights would not be granted where “expressive elements are determined by a machine.” Furthermore, the report said that protections would be decided on a “case-by-case” basis.
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Kehlani Slams AI In Creative Arts While Reacting To Reports Of AI R&B Artist Xania Monet ‘Signing’ Multi-Million-Dollar Record Deal
Reacting to the news, among many on social media, is 5x Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Kehlani. While taking to social media, the R&B and Soul singer, songwriter, and dancer criticized the use of AI in the music industry. She calls out the discrediting of successful and highly talented singers, songwriters and producers. In an initial video on TikTok, she said:
“There is an AI R&B artist who just signed a multi-million-dollar deal, and has a Top 5 R&B album, and the person is doing none of the work. I think you guys think that AI can just be the cover for something. Which some people can use, they can make an AI cover.
AI can also make the entire f**king song. It can sing the entire song. It can make the entire beat. You can have a song that’s one type of song and say, ‘AI, make this into a Country song,’ and it will literally rewrite and re-sing, in a Country voice, and redo the entire thing. And they don’t have to credit anyone.
This is so beyond out of our control. Nothing and no one on Earth will ever be able to justify AI to me. Especially not f**king AI in the creative arts, in which people have worked hard for, trained for, slept on the floor for, f**king got injuries for, worked their entire lives for. I’m sorry, I don’t respect it. F****ck.”
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While taking to her Instagram Story to address questions and criticism, she wrote:
“1. I’m genuinely sad for people who are trying to come up and their space is being taken up by a computer program.
2. People saying, ‘Damn I don’t care she’s so relatable,’ IT, not she, is taking all of the data it’s collected on us and what we want, and is tailoring to us. even down to the voice.
3. People saying, ‘Well the creator is a poet who can’t sing but wanted to make her ideas come to life,’ maybe she should write a poetry book. I love to support a good poet. I cannot paint. So, I’m not going to create Al paintings and sell them, taking up space from up and coming painters. This is the antithesis of art. Just because you can don’t mean you should. Art is not a money grab. Music means something significant to culture, to humanity, to people. Me, personally, I’m going to value it that way for the rest of my life.”
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