[ sourced from TechCrunch ]
This is the best summary I could come up with:
I woke up at 2 AM last night with a terrifying and unexplained allergic reaction, so I went ahead and cancelled my afternoon calls due to the lingering consequences of having a human body on this mortal coil.
But then the algorithm bestowed a gift upon me: I saw a low-fi Homer Simpson singing a Queens of the Stone Age song inside of a Minecraft castle while Optimus Prime and Shrek dance around in the crowd.
This is the ideal use of AI: it has tangibly improved my day, and it probably hasn’t caused any real harm in the process, assuming that the voice actor for Homer Simpson and Brandon Flowers can take a joke.
But when I think about my other all-time favorites, there’s something cut from the same cloth: Goofy singing Evanescence’s “Bring Me To Life,” which was posted 9 years ago and racked up over 11 million YouTube views.
The Drake/Weeknd song blew up to such a degree that Universal Music Group, the publisher representing both of those artists, filed a slew of DMCA takedowns, to try to scrub the synthetic work from the internet.
But, as we’ve discussed at length, copyright law is not adequately equipped to make definitive judgements on what derivative AI works are fair game, so it’s the wild west out there.
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MossyFeathers@pawb.social 6 months ago
Some of my favorite AI music covers are with Plankton. For some reason his voice suits songs like Aerials or Killing in the Name, though it appears the latter has either been delisted or taken off YouTube because I can’t find it anymore.
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