Grimes invites people to use her voice in AI songs
Grimes has welcomed musicians to create new songs with her voice using Artificial Intelligence, saying she would split 50% of royalties on any successful AI-generated track that included her voice.
The Canadian singer, whose real name is Claire Boucher, tweeted that it was the “same deal as I would with any artist I collab[orate] with. Feel free to use my voice without penalty,” she tweeted.
She said she was interested in being a “guinea pig” and she thought “it’s cool to be fused with a machine and I like the idea of open sourcing all art and killing copyright”.
The music industry is currently entering unparalleled territory as it tries to keep up with the implications of a spate of songs created by training AI to generate artists’ voices.
Last week, Universal Music successfully petitioned TikTok, YouTube and Spotify to remove a track titled Heart On My Sleeve, which used AI vocals generated from their artists Drake and the Weeknd.
It was just one of several recently released tracks that featured AI-generated vocals based on Drake, who does not seem to be as enthused as Grimes. The rapper recently wrote: “This is the final straw AI,” on an Instagram story, referring to a version of Ice Spice’s song Munch that was released with a fake verse by him.
In a statement, the label said “the training of generative AI using our artists’ music” was “a violation of copyright law”. However, Universal’s position has not been tested in court, and it remains a legal grey area whether art that is created by a human, but which contains AI elements, can be
copyrighted.
In October, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) warned that AI companies were violating copyrights en masse by using music to train their machines.
However, last month the US Copyright
mother murdered, his only message to the court and Keen-Warren was, “May God be with her.”
Keen-Warren was an employee of Marlene Warren’s husband, Michael, at his used car lot. Since 2002, she has been Michael Warren’s wife.
In 1990, witnesses told investigators the two were having an affair, though both denied it.
Detectives said costume shop employees identified Sheila Keen-Warren as the woman who bought a clown suit a few days before the killing. One of the two balloons – a silver one that read, “You’re the Greatest” – was sold at only one store, a Publix supermarket near Keen-Warren’s home. Employees told detectives a woman who looked like her bought the balloons an hour before the shooting.
The presumed getaway car was found with orange, hair-like fibers inside. The white Chrysler convertible was reported stolen from Michael Warren’s car lot a month before the shooting. Keen-Warren and her then husband repossessed cars for Warren.
Relatives told the Palm Beach Post in 2000 that Marlene Warren, who was 40, suspected her husband was having an affair and wanted to leave him. But the car lot and other properties were in her name and she feared what might happen if she did.
She allegedly told her mother: “If anything happens to me, Mike done it.”
He has never been charged and denies involvement.
On Tuesday, Rosenfeld said the state’s case was falling apart. One DNA sample somehow showed both male and female genes, he said, while the other could have come from one out of every 20 women, even Marlene Warren.
Even if that hair did come from Keen-Warren, the lawyer said, it could have been deposited before the car was reported stolen. He said witnesses told detectives the car wasn’t the killer’s. Investigators insisted it was.
Aronberg conceded that there were holes in the case, caused by the three decades it took to get it to trial, including the death of key witnesses.
In 1994, Michael Warren was convicted of grand theft, racketeering and odometer tampering. He served almost four years in prison, a punishment his attorneys said was disproportionately long because of suspicions he was involved in his wife’s death.
On Tuesday, he did not return a call seeking comment.