Post by MartinT on Jun 22, 2024 14:54:17 GMT
Sheryl Crow: 'Resurrecting Tupac with AI is hateful'
Speaking to the BBC, she characterises the technology as a “slippery slope” and “a betrayal” that “goes against everything humanity is based on”.
Her attention was focused on the software last year, after meeting a young songwriter who’d been employing it in her work.
Frustrated that male singers wouldn’t listen to her demos, she paid to have an AI clone of country star John Mayer replace her vocals.
When Crow heard the song, she was so “terrified” that she was “literally hyperventilating”.
“I know John and I know the nuances of his voice,” she says. “And there would be no way you’d have been able to tell that he was not singing that song."
Her horror deepened when Drake used AI to resurrect the voice of late rapper Tupac Shakur on his song Taylor Made Freestyle earlier this year.
The track was subsequently removed after lawyers from Tupac's estate threatened to sue, but Crow says it should never have been released in the first place.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn00e695lpvo
Speaking to the BBC, she characterises the technology as a “slippery slope” and “a betrayal” that “goes against everything humanity is based on”.
Her attention was focused on the software last year, after meeting a young songwriter who’d been employing it in her work.
Frustrated that male singers wouldn’t listen to her demos, she paid to have an AI clone of country star John Mayer replace her vocals.
When Crow heard the song, she was so “terrified” that she was “literally hyperventilating”.
“I know John and I know the nuances of his voice,” she says. “And there would be no way you’d have been able to tell that he was not singing that song."
Her horror deepened when Drake used AI to resurrect the voice of late rapper Tupac Shakur on his song Taylor Made Freestyle earlier this year.
The track was subsequently removed after lawyers from Tupac's estate threatened to sue, but Crow says it should never have been released in the first place.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn00e695lpvo
