{"id":162359,"date":"2023-04-17T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T21:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-new-drake-x-the-weeknd-track-just-blew-up-but-its-an-ai-fake"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T21:23:47","slug":"a-new-drake-x-the-weeknd-track-just-blew-up-but-its-an-ai-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-new-drake-x-the-weeknd-track-just-blew-up-but-its-an-ai-fake","title":{"rendered":"A new Drake x The Weeknd track just blew up \u2014 but it\u2019s an AI fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-drake-x-the-weeknd-track-just-blew-up-but-its-an-ai-fake2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ghostwriter977\/video\/7222027667132960046\">song<\/a> featuring the voices of Drake and The Weeknd called \u201cHeart On My Sleeve\u201d has amassed over 250,000 Spotify streams and 10 million views on TikTok. But the two renowned musicians had nothing to do with the song \u2014 an artist going by the name \u201cghostwriter\u201d generated the song using AI.<\/p>\n<p>Drake and The Weeknd have not yet responded to the song, but Drake recently commented on AI-generated music that rips off his voice. When Drake noticed an AI model of himself singing \u201cMunch\u201d by Ice Spice, he wrote on his Instagram story, \u201cThis is the final straw AI.\u201d It\u2019s possible he was <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/2023\/4\/drake-ai-rapping-ice-spice-munch-voice-response-info\">messing around<\/a>, but he would be far from the first major artist to take issue with the rising count of deepfake songs.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Jay-Z\u2019s agency Roc Nation submitted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/28\/21240488\/jay-z-deepfakes-roc-nation-youtube-removed-ai-copyright-impersonation\">copyright strikes<\/a> against YouTube uploads of AI-generated Jay-Z deepfakes, but YouTube ended up reinstating the videos. And just last week, the same thing happened to Eminem; UMG, which represents both of these rappers, issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/88xadz\/ai-generated-eminem-rap-youtube-chatgpt\">copyright strike<\/a> on AI-generated YouTube videos of Eminem rapping about cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A song featuring the voices of Drake and The Weeknd called \u201cHeart On My Sleeve\u201d has amassed over 250,000 Spotify streams and 10 million views on TikTok. But the two renowned musicians had nothing to do with the song \u2014 an artist going by the name \u201cghostwriter\u201d generated the song using AI. Drake and The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}