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The Open Source Pop Star: How Grimes Shows the Way Forward for Artists in the Age of AI

-- By KieranSingh2001 - 20 Feb 2024

Introduction

Two things have bothered me for the last two years: First, we expected Artificial Intelligence (AI) to replace menial labor and leave time for creative work, and yet it is replacing creative work instead of menial labor. Second, music artists often sit on their hands when their music is leaked, rather than taking advantage of the situation by posting it to streaming platforms themselves. Both phenomena are a result of a certain denial of the nature of technology: we ignore AI's impact on art because we don't consider it "real art," and music artists ignore leaks, possibly because they think it's feasible to take it down from the internet (it is not).

Music Leaks (Real and AI)

When music leaks, public sentiment splinters. The first camp, normally die-hard fans of the artists whose music leaked, desperately tries to hide the leaks, either by spamming search results, using social pressure to prevent other fans from listening to the leaks or talking to the posters of the leaks themselves. The second camp of people listens to the music, decides the artist made it, and gives their opinion on said leak, whether good or bad. The third and final camp are those convinced that the songs are made using AI. The latter camp does not believe that AI created the entire song, more so that someone created the song, and then covered it using an AI-generated replica of the artist's voice. The debate then devolves into people who like the song arguing that it is a legitimate leak, and those that do not arguing that it is AI.

Legal Safeguards

Real Leaks

AI

According to Rachel Reed at Harvard Law, it is not completely clear how to legally justify taking down a song that uses an AI version of a singer's voice. In one famous case involving the rapper and singer Drake, Universal Media Group was able to take an AI-cover song down from TikTok? due to its use of a copyrighted producer tag (a short audio or voice track laid onto the song to give the producer credit). Moreover,

What happens when they're indistinguishable?

Will Congress or State Legislatures Do Anything?

Profiting From Artistic Misfortune

Licensing Your Voice -- GrimesAI?

Legal Barriers and Solutions

Releasing Leaked Music

Legal Barriers and Solutions

Conclusion

Cites

https://hls.harvard.edu/today/ai-created-a-song-mimicking-the-work-of-drake-and-the-weeknd-what-does-that-mean-for-copyright-law/

https://www.stlamerican.com/arts_and_entertainment/hot_sheet/st-louisan-sza-takes-legal-action-against-suspects-who-leaked-her-music/article_9f8f9af2-b804-11ee-8140-3b28bf73f520.html

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