You only need to have watched the recent Google I/O keynote, in which around two-thirds of the presentation was taken up by AI discussion, to see how big a deal Artificial Intelligence is. The likes of ChatGPT and Google Bard are impressive and have their own concerns for the authenticity of the written word, but as a Spotify obsessive, I’m more worried about AI music.
Last month music fans were treated to a surprise treat, two of the biggest artists in the world, Drake and The Weeknd, released a surprise song, Heart On My Sleeve… except they didn’t. The song, released under the pseudonym Ghostwriter, sounded exactly like the two Canadian artists but was in fact created without permission by an AI trained on their voices. Scary stuff. This was the most high profile of thousands of AI songs that have been released onto the platform, many of which came from AI platform Boomy.
