"A song featuring AI-generated vocals purporting to be Drake and the Weeknd has been pulled from streaming services by Universal Music Group (UMG) after going viral over the weekend. The label condemned the song, called Heart on My Sleeve, for “infringing content created with generative AI”.
The track was originally posted on TikTok by a user called Ghostwriter977 and shared on streaming services under the artist name Ghostwriter. By the time it was removed yesterday afternoon US time (17 April), it had racked up 600,000 Spotify streams, 15m TikTok views and 275,000 YouTube views.
UMG told Billboard magazine that the viral postings “demonstrate why platforms have a fundamental legal and ethical responsibility to prevent the use of their services in ways that harm artists”.
If the track were posted here on NOSTR, curious how the "take-down" notice would work. Client by client, but a relay run from my house could push it down stream? Interesting....
Anyway, here's the track, still on Twitter for now...
https://twitter.com/rpnickson/status/1647548141384736770?t=fTm7jKYVn_doIJNYHQvdjg&s=19
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