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What Does JAY-Z’s Fight Over Audio Deepfakes Mean for the Future of AI Music?

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In late April, audio clips surfaced that appeared to capture JAY-Z rapping several unexpected texts. Did you ever imagine you’d hear JAY-Z do Shakespeare’s “To Be, Or Not to Be” soliloquy from Hamlet?

How about Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” or a decade-old 4chan meme? All of these unlikely recitations were, of course, fake: “entirely computer-generated using a text-to-speech model trained on the speech patterns of JAY-Z,” according to a YouTube description.

More specifically, they were deepfakes. “Deepfakes” are super-realistic videos, photos, or audio falsified through sophisticated artificial intelligence.

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