Grimes will share profits with AIs that generate songs with his voice

Canadian singer and songwriter Grimes is proposing a somewhat different approach to the issue of copyright in the music industry: sharing profits and royalties in 50% with artificial intelligence who helped create them. In a post on Twitter, the singer explained that AI has been a big part of her creative approach recently, and that this technology is capable of producing music on its own, and on the other hand, she also recognizes that AI is still owned by the company that developed it .

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This solution proposed by Grimes indicates that instead of the company retaining all copyrights and profits generated by artificial intelligence, a percentage would be shared equally with AI in itself. She believes this approach would be fair, as technology was instrumental in creating the music and deserves to be compensated.

Grimes' proposal comes at a time when the issue of copyright and intellectual property in the The music — of the arts in general, like images, too — is being increasingly debated. Technology is playing an increasingly important role in music creation, but many artists and songwriters are concerned that their creations could be exploited by technology companies without fair compensation.

I will split 50% of the royalties on any successful AI-generated song that uses my voice. Feel free to use my voice without penalty

Says the singer through her Twitter account

There are (more) exceptions!

Grimes isn't the first artist to embrace voice cloning and artificial intelligence tools. Holly Herndon, an experimental musician, presented her own artificial voice called Holly Plus in 2021. The artist allows users to send audio files and later receive a new version, which is sung in her voice. Only members of the decentralized autonomous organization — known by its acronym DAO — from Herndon can profit by using this voice model.

Voice models trained on an artist's set of recordings are now more accessible than ever, yielding very different results, funny and some even a little scary. A song generated using voice models from The Weeknd e Drake went viral last week, including being removed from streaming platforms shortly afterwards.

In the midst of the viralization of this song called “Heart on My Sleeve", a Universal Music Group issued a very scathing statement, stating that training artificial intelligence models with the work of its artists was a copyright infringement. Hours after she posted the offer on Twitter, Grimes noticed a potential loophole in allowing anyone to use their voice for music. “Okay, I hate this part, but we can ONLY do copyright takedowns for extremely toxic lyrics with my voice ", she wrote. “Like, please, no baby murder songs."

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