Okay! Timbaland gave us a little preview of a song he created using AI featuring some vocals by Biggie.
The Virginia producer shared a video to his Instagram saying, “We know that it’s a lot of talk about AI, and we know how the feelings of violating certain things… But let me tell you something,” Timbaland explains in the reel. “I got a solution, we’re working on it. It’s gonna be beneficial to everybody. But, in the meantime, I gotta share something I’ve been working on because I always wanted to do this and I never got a chance to. I always wanted to work with Big, and I never got a chance to, until today! It came out right! Play!”
AI has been causing a lot of issues in the music industry lately. As we previously reported, Drake also spoke out about AI after someone generated his voice on Ice Spice’s hit song munch. “This is the final straw AI,” wrote Drizzy in a post on his Instagram Stories alongside a repost of the clip.
The post also included AI-generated versions of Rihanna singing Beyoncé’s “Cuff It,” Travis Scott rapping Pop Smoke’s “For the Night,” and Kanye West singing Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself.”
There’s been growing concern over the use of AI to copy people’s voices, and prolific audio engineer and producer Young Guru has repeatedly voiced his issues with the worrying power of AI with fake Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar verses. Meanwhile, Google has developed a project entitled MusLM, which can generate music from a description after it has been trained on over 280,000 hours of music. The company has not released the project, due to the risk of copyright issues.
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A spokesperson for UMG also spoke out and said they are working to block these AI models from using copyrighted content.
“We have a moral and commercial responsibility to our artists to work to prevent the unauthorized use of their music and to stop platforms from ingesting content that violates the rights of artists and other creators,” said a UMG spokesperson. “We expect our platform partners will want to prevent their services from being used in ways that harm artists.”
WHAT IS A.I?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the development of computer systems that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and natural language processing.
AI is a broad field that includes various subfields, such as machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, robotics, and expert systems. These subfields focus on different aspects of intelligence and use different techniques to simulate human cognition and behavior.