Your K-Pop favorites may be illicit AI voice clones

Date:
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:00:21 +0000

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AI-created songs and voices are streamed millions of times, especially K-Pop

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Is your latest song on repeat really sung by Blackpink or Justin Bieber? Theres a shockingly high chance that its a deepfake voice clone created to trick you, according to a new study from musicMagpie aptly titled Bop or Bot? The study found an astonishing 1.63 million AI covers just on YouTube . Listeners may not always be able to tell the difference, and it could
actually have a financial impact on the artists whose voices are being used for the songs.

The biggest victims of these deepfake tracks are K-pop groups, accounting for 35% of the top twenty most-streamed AI-generated artists. Blackpink is at the top of the list, with more than 17.3 million views of AI-generated content mimicking the group, with an AI cover of Batter Up by BabyMonster nabbing 2.5 million views alone. Justin Bieber ranks second on the list at over 13
million views, including his biggest fake hit at 10.1 million views, Nothings Gonna Change My Love For You by George Benson. Rounding out the top three stolen voices is Kanye West at 3.4 million views for AI-generated tracks, including a cover of Somebody That I Used to Know with 2.6 million streams.

Theres a more literal theft involved, too. The financial implications of AI-generated music are substantial, according to musicMagpie. The company estimated that the surge in AI-generated content could translate to more than $13.5 million in lost revenue for original creators. Thats about $500,000
lost for Blackpink, while Bieber and West lost out on $202,964 and $130,000, respectively. Voice Tricks

Even being deceased cant save artists from AI theft, as the AI ghost of Frank Sinatras 8.9 million views and Freddie Mercurys 3.55 million views can
attest. As for fictional unlicensed voices, theres an unexpected appeal to SpongeBob SquarePants performing songs and collecting 10.2 million views of the yellow cartoon character. His biggest hit? Don Macleans American Pie.

Part of the issue is that people arent good at telling AI-generated music
from music made by humans. In a further study, musicMagpie found that 72% of participants were sure they could tell an AI-produced song from one made by humans, but 49% couldnt do so. And its not an age thing; Gen Z participants were actually the most easily fooled. All of this is fodder for ongoing legal battles facing AI music startups like Suno and Udio overusing unlicensed material to train their AI models. If the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and music labels can successfully argue that theres a real monetary loss involved, theyll likely have a stronger case against the AI model developers.

These findings highlight a growing challenge in the music industry: as AI technology becomes more sophisticated, music lovers across multiple generations are struggling to discern between what is real and what is artificially created, the studys authors point out. If nearly half of listeners cant tell the difference between a human artist and an AI, what
does this mean for the value of human creativity? How will this affect the
way we create, perceive, and appreciate music in the years to come? These are questions that the industry must grapple with as AI continues to evolve. You might also like... Suno takes a 'What, me worry?' approach to legal troubles and rolls out AI music-generating mobile app AI music makers face recording industry legal battle of the bands that could spell trouble for your AI-generated tunes YouTube can spot those AI-produced faces and music tracks you're seeing all over



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/your-k-pop-favorit es-may-be-illicit-ai-voice-clones


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