Recently, Grimes declared that anyone can use her voice for the development of AI-generated songs. She is not the first artist to embrace automated voice cloning and artificial intelligence tools. Holly Herndon, an experimental musician, presented her own virtual voice, dubbed Holly Plus, in 2021. Herndon allows users to upload sound files and receive a new version made by her voice. Nonetheless, just members of Herndon’s decentralized autonomic organization (DAO) can profit from the voice model.
AI models prepared on a corpus of recordings of an artist became more reachable than ever, giving rise to bizarre, entertaining, and slightly sinister outcomes. A Track generated using voices of Drake and The Weeknd surprisingly spread last week, but was then retracted from multiple streaming sites quickly. In the middle of the song, entitled “Heart on My Sleeve,” becoming famous, Universal Music Group released a strictly-worded message claiming that training AI models on their artist’s work constituted a copyright violation.
Universal Music Group is a large multinational music corporation, established in 1934. It operates record labels and entertainment companies based around the world and is the biggest of the three major record companies, accounting for market share in excess of 25%. Universal Music Group’s catalog includes recordings, music videos, audio visual compositions and digital properties.
Holly Herndon is a renowned, experimental musician and is well known for her innovative use of artificial intelligence and voice cloning. She has released numerous groundbreaking albums and collaborated with artists from many fields of the music industry, from orchestral and modern to acoustic and experimental. Herndon is also a professor at Stanford University and a DAO member, allowing her to benefit from donations for her virtual voice.
