Grimes happy to split the royalties if anyone wants to create an AI Grimes track
completemusicupdate.comIf anyone is thinking of jumping on the bandwagon of training generative AI tools to make new songs in the style of existing artists, well, maybe you should start with Grimes.
Because – unlike some in the music industry – she’s not bothered at all about AI being employed in that way and would gladly share the royalties in any tracks featuring an AI version of her voice.Commenting on an article about one of the fake Drake tracks that got people talking last week, Grimes said on Twitter: “I’ll split 50% royalties on any successful AI-generated song that uses my voice.
Same deal as I would with any artist I collab with. Feel free to use my voice without penalty. I have no label and no legal bindings”.Last week an AI-generated track featuring vocals in the style of Drake and The Weeknd popped up on the streaming services for a time after going viral on TikTok.
It prompted Universal Music – as the label of both artists – to again call on the streaming services to do their bit to help the music industry deal with the ever increasing stream of AI-generated music that is now being created and released.The major had already urged the streaming services to ensure that people are not able to train generative AI technologies by scraping music on their platforms.
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