{"id":163630,"date":"2023-05-10T12:23:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/china-has-its-drakegpt-moment-as-ai-singer-goes-viral"},"modified":"2023-05-10T12:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:23:19","slug":"china-has-its-drakegpt-moment-as-ai-singer-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/china-has-its-drakegpt-moment-as-ai-singer-goes-viral","title":{"rendered":"China has its DrakeGPT moment as AI singer goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-has-its-drakegpt-moment-as-ai-singer-goes-viral3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mandopop singer Stefanie Sun has gone viral on Bilibili, China\u2019s largest user-generated video streaming site. But the sudden revival of interest in Sun, who hasn\u2019t released an album since 2017, comes not from the artist having another moment of genius.<\/p>\n<p>The songs that have attracted millions of views on Bilibili feature Sun\u2019s voice cloned by artificial intelligence, raising questions about copyright protection.<\/p>\n<p>Reminiscing on the golden age of Mandarin pop music, tech-savvy Chinese internet users took the liberty of mimicking Sun\u2019s voice using <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/RVC-Project\/Retrieval-based-Voice-Conversion-WebUI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">singing voice conversion<\/a>, a deep learning method that lets a user <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/02\/24\/voicemod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deliver one person\u2019s singing in another person\u2019s voice<\/a>, and swap it into a compilation of Mandpop classics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandopop singer Stefanie Sun has gone viral on Bilibili, China\u2019s largest user-generated video streaming site. But the sudden revival of interest in Sun, who hasn\u2019t released an album since 2017, comes not from the artist having another moment of genius. The songs that have attracted millions of views on Bilibili feature Sun\u2019s voice cloned by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163630","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=163630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}