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Grimes Tells Fans To Deepfake Her Music, Will Split 50% Royalties With AI (forbes.com) 63

Canadian singer-songwriter Grimes has invited her fans to create music using her voice, stating that she would split 50% of royalties for any successful AI-generated song using her voice. On Sunday night she tweeted: "I'll split 50% royalties on any successful AI generated song that uses my voice. Same deal as I would with any artist i collab with. Feel free to use my voice without penalty. I have no label and no legal bindings."

She also said she welcomes the open sourcing of art and an end to copyright. "Im just curious what even happens and interested in being a Guinea pig." From a report: Grimes has long embraced AI as a techno artist. In 2020, her first album to top the Billboard dance charts was Miss Anthropocene, named for the effects of technology on Earth's ecology and climate in the post-Industrial Revolution era. It was also in 2020 that she teamed up with the algorithmic mood music startup Endel to create an AI-generated lullaby for her first child with SpaceX founder Elon Musk who they named X AE A-12 with the Elven spelling of AI, according to Grimes.

"Everyday I thank the overlords of Ableton for cleaning up my tracks, but I do worry though that AI will outpace us and make musicians obsolete. It's inevitable," she warned at Web Summit 2020. With millions of followers across YouTube, Instagram and Twitter and hits like Oblivion, Kill V. Maim and Go, her call for AI collaboration could be a game changer.

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Grimes Tells Fans To Deepfake Her Music, Will Split 50% Royalties With AI

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  • How long will it take for someone to come up with something just to burn her career?

  • The others seek attention by begging to have copycats
  • You don't get those without a copyright.

    • To expand on this:

      AI cannot hold a copyright
      and even if it could, she would not hold the copyright.

      • by Luckyo ( 1726890 )

        To explain like you're five: you need a be a legal person to hold copyright. So you can simply be a person who holds rights to something AI created. Who can then pay royalties on whatever is made off things AI created to another person.

        You don't even need to be a human for this. Corporation can do the holding the rights-part.

        This isn't even new or interesting. Things like Vocaloid existed since what, 2007?

  • Brilliant! (Score:3, Insightful)

    by deepgrey ( 1246108 ) on Monday April 24, 2023 @06:25PM (#63473986)
    Get other people to use AI to make music for you and take 50% of the profits without having to do any work.
    • That's a bit disingenuous. "Grimes" is a brand and by featuring her voice lesser-known/unknown artists will get more automatic playlist plays on streaming services. That's in addition to the manual plays when people want to check out the "AI ft. Grimes" song.
  • Send out an email to collect the NFT royalties but her management said she was talking about her music.
    5 minutes of my life wasted on creating those monkey images.
    Bummer!

  • by TwistedGreen ( 80055 ) on Monday April 24, 2023 @09:00PM (#63474208)

    When I hear Grimes all I think about is, "What's this? 'Extremely high voltage.' Well, I don't need safety gloves, because I'm Homer Simp-!"

    Rest in peace, Grimey old pal.

  • Grimes makes the absolute worst music I've ever heard in my life.

    There is no AI that can fix that.

    • by sconeu ( 64226 ) on Monday April 24, 2023 @11:03PM (#63474332) Homepage Journal

      Grimes makes the absolute worst music I've ever heard in my life.

      Have you ever listened to Yoko Ono?

      • I'd give you an insightful for this, but they just expired. I'm listening to Grimes right now, "shinigami eyes" and "player of games".

        Her voice in both is so processed that I'd be surprised that anybody could pin down that her voice was used by the AI.

        • Why are you listening?

          • So I could give an honest review of what I think of her music? Especially in the context of AI art?

            More listenable than Yoko, but so autotuned and what I'd call "behind the music" rather than "in front of the music", so much so that it's practically background. Should be very easy to replicate using AI stuff.

            • Forgot to mention: I ended up listening to a total of 4 of her songs, which should give me a good idea of her general music, that I didn't just hit two bad ones or whatever. Some artists can actually sound very different song to song. Kimbra has more variations between songs in my opinion(I'm hardly a music critic though)

        • I agree with this assessment. Not having heard her before I listened to a handful of songs. Her song structures are definitely more creative than most chart pop, but her voice is so heavily processed that the overall effect is ethereal. Plenty of people seem to enjoy her music, for me it lacks character and relistenability.

  • Why is this even here? This "news" article was probably submitted by Grimes and voted by bots.
    • Well, it's AI related and AI is currently the hot shit in all things computer (or so I heard...), so that's probably why it's here, along with all the other AI stories.

      It's just yet again one of those things where nobody knows just how much it's gonna take off. It could be the next hot thing or it could be the next Metaverse, an overhyped, overblown, overheated piece of crap nobody gives a fuck about in the end.

  • Since she can't keep these things from happening anyway, she can as well try to get her cut.

  • D-List news, stuff that doesn't matter.

  • "Use my voice, as long as I get the money"

    They ALL do that!

  • by rasons ( 10366324 )
    There are many artificial intelligence generators you can find. But since there isn't much that's free, and even it's free, it can be a little annoying to use. You can check this list https://mspoweruser.com/top-7-... [mspoweruser.com]
  • Seems like folks focused on the "Anthropocene" part of the album name and maybe overlooked the play on the word misanthrope.

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