YouTube announced a new artificial intelligence tool that generates music tracks sung by popular artists such as John Legend and Demi Lovato, although some critics criticized it as the latest technology that has stripped music of its “human spark.”
Starting Thursday, American creators can access the artificial intelligence tool called “Dream Track” in the short-form section of the video-sharing site YouTube Shorts, where they are encouraged to type a message that will produce an audio clip original 30 seconds. with the AI-generated voice of a selected artist, youtube announced.
Nine popular artists lent their voices to Dream Tracks: John Legend, Demi Lovato, Charlie Puth, Sia, Alec Benjamin, Charli XCX, Papoose, T-Pain and Troye Sivan.
in a demo video Voiced by Charlie Puth, a user writes this message on Dream Track: “A ballad about how opposites attract, upbeat acoustic.”
Then Puth’s voice sings, “Honey, we have nothing in common, but I know I’m what you’ve been wanting for so long.”
The commenters on the video did not seem enthusiastic about the development of Dream Track.
“Youtube replaces creators now… lovely. Disgusting stuff,” one person wrote, while another chimed in: “Soon most of that human spark disappears completely and all that’s left is noise.”
“There is so much beautiful music out there if you look for it. The problem is that technology is completely devaluing it. Creative people make art because they have to. They are who they are. The world we are building here makes it increasingly difficult for these people to survive,” wrote another.
In other technology demonstration videos posted on the site’s own YouTube account garnered similar comments, where one user sarcastically wrote, “Wooo, let’s put musicians out of business.”
“The failures rejoice!” another joked.
Another commenter pointed out that YouTube prevented viewers from seeing the number of dislikes the video got and only showed the number of likes, which was almost 400 at the time of writing.
Dream Track was created in partnership with Google’s AI lab DeepMind, which introduced Lyria, “our most advanced AI music generation model to date,” as well as a suite of AI music tools to power the new artificial intelligence robot. Google said in its own press release.
When The Post contacted Google, YouTube’s parent company, for comment, a spokesperson pointed to its press releases about Dream Tracks.
While some artists contribute their voices to artificial intelligence technology, others in the music industry have filed lawsuits to ensure a robot doesn’t steal their work.
YouTube addressed potential concerns in its announcement. “As countless companies chart their approach to AI, we want ours to be defined by partnership and responsibility,” the company said, pointing to its newly developed set of musical AI principles.
He guidelines Note that YouTube uses Content ID, a rights management technology that ensures copyright owners receive payment for the use of their content, and tapped Universal Music Group’s roster talent to “gather information about “Generative AI experiments and research being developed on YouTube.”
Meanwhile, Universal Music recently joined music publishers ABKCO and Concord in a lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Anthropic in federal court in Tennessee last month, accusing it of misusing an “innumerable” number of copyrighted song lyrics to train its chatbot Claude.
The big publishers claimed in their filing that Anthropic violated their rights by using copyrighted lyrics from at least 500 songs, including the Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” and the Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars. ‘ “Uptown Funk” and “Halo” by Beyoncé.
The authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman, who also owns the copyright, have filed similar litigation against Meta and OpenAI, which are behind LLaMA and ChatGPT, respectively.
Silverman filed separate lawsuits against each of the tech giants in July, alleging that their artificial intelligence models used content from his memories. the one who wets the bed, to train without your permission.
The complaints also included authors Christopher Golden and his award-winning novel. Araratas well as Richard Kadrey, who wrote slim sandman.
