1 AI thing: Deepfake music
An AI company developed a system that can make original compositions in the style of famous musicians.
Why it matters: Given the middling quality of the result, no one is going to be requesting a deepfake Elvis Presley at their next party. But the achievement is still remarkable — and may be the next step to creating AI musicians we actually want to listen to.
The product, called Jukebox, was released this week by Silicon Valley-based OpenAI.
- The algorithms, which were trained on collections of an artist’s songs, were able to find patterns in the audio data that roughly correlated to musical style.
- Those patterns were then used to generate new songs in the artist’s style, complete with new lyrics created in collaboration with human OpenAI researchers.
- Somehow this all resulted in a surprisingly lifelike deepfake Frank Sinatra singing about a “hot tub Christmas.”
What’s next: OpenAI’s Jukebox won’t be putting any musicians out of work. But the project does raise interesting questions about copyright and originality in the age of AI.
- Earlier this week, Jay-Z’s entertainment agency Roc Nation filed copyright strikesagainst YouTube in an effort to take down AI-powered impersonations of the rapper rhyming Shakespeare lines and Billy Joel songs.
The bottom line: As Jay-Z might say, “Everybody wanna be Hov.” Including, apparently, the bots.
Πηγή: axios.com
