Sparked by complaints of "suspicious streaming activity," the songs removed account for just 7% of all Boomy tracks. Spotify is in the midst of an AI music purge.Īccording to the company has removed "tens of thousands" of songs created by AI music startup Boomy. As reported by the Financial Times, it was the Universal Music label that raised the alarm, after which Spotify withdrew 7% of Boomy’s songs available on the platform. This war that Spotify is now waging against AI-generated music is due to the detection of suspicious activity in the songs of Boomy, a music start-up based on artificial intelligence that generates musical compositions without the cooperation of artists. READ ALSO: More viewers will have their voices heard during Eurovision this year Spotify wages war on AI-generated music Another prominent case was the song created by artificial intelligence that imitated singer Frank Ocean. The company says they decided to delete the songs after discovering that the AI-generated songs were being used to collect royalties on behalf of fraudulent accounts. Now the Swedish audio streaming giant has deleted tens of thousands of AI-made songs following complaints received for fraud attempts. Weeks ago the fake song Heart On My Sleeve, composed with this tool and imitating the voices of Drake and The Weeknd, was removed from Spotify and Apple Music. Last week, the Financial Times reported that Universal had written to streaming services including Spotify and Apple calling for them to block AI services from scraping melodies and lyrics from copyrighted songs.Artificial intelligence continues to be a hotbed of controversy, and this holds true for the music scene. Music companies are concerned about copyright breaches in terms of both the output of AI-generated songs and the input of the tracks used to train the software in the first place. The rise of AI poses a major challenge to the music industry as labels grapple with complicated issues around copyright. Other high-profile examples include a version of Adele’s “Easy On Me” that emulated the voice of Kanye West and a cover of a Beyoncé song using Rihanna’s vocals.īut the fake Drake song is the most successful so far in replicating the artists' real voices. It is not the first time nascent AI technology has been used to clone artists’ music. “These instances demonstrate why platforms have a fundamental legal and ethical responsibility to prevent the use of their services in ways that harm artists.” Universal, which publishes both artists through its Republic Records label, said it had always embraced new technologies.īut it added: “The training of generative AI using our artists’ music (which represents both a breach of our agreements and a violation of copyright law) as well as the availability of infringing content created with generative AI on DSPs, begs the question as to which side of history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on: the side of artists, fans and human creative expression, or on the side of deep fakes, fraud and denying artists their due compensation. Ghostwriter, who said the song was created by feeding existing songs by the artists into AI software, wrote on YouTube: “This is just the beginning.” The two-minute song, created by an artist known only as “Ghostwriter”, features simulated verses by Drake and The Weeknd which refer to the pop star and actress Selena Gomez. However, versions of it are still available on YouTube and Twitter. Spotify and Apple, alongside TikTok and smaller streaming services Deezer and Tidal, have removed the song from their platforms. It added that streaming platforms had a “legal and ethical responsibility” to ensure the use of generative AI did not harm artists. Universal Music Group, the record label representing both artists, said the song was “both a breach of our agreements and a violation of copyright law”. The track quickly became an online sensation but has sparked a furious response from the music industry. Heart On My Sleeve, which clones the voices of the two best-selling artists, has racked up more than 20 million streams across Spotify, TikTok and Twitter in recent days. Spotify and Apple have removed a song that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to mimic Drake and The Weeknd from their streaming services after accusations of copyright violations.
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