To hear it from Apple or Elon Musk, AI is our inevitable future, one that will radically reshape life as we know it whether we like it or not. In the calculus of Silicon Valley, what matters is getting there first and carving out the territory so that everyone will …
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The biggest name in search has been making a mockery of itself, misinforming users that Barack Obama is a Muslim and that humans should eat rocks daily. It is even (trigger warning: self harm) touting the Golden Gate Bridge as the “best bridge to jump off,” highlighting the high fatality …
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Scarlett Johansson said she received an offer from ChatGPT to use her voice for its new system last year. After thinking about it, she declined. Yet, she said, OpenAI used a voice “eerily similar” to her own anyway. In a statement to Rolling Stone on Monday, the actress shared that …
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An Artificial Intelligence music maker capable of quickly creating songs with AI-generated music and vocals just raised $125 million, the latest sign of the fast-developing AI arms race in the music business. Suno is like a ChatGPT for music; users input phrases and keywords for a song they’d like to …
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Randy Travis‘s AI voice-clone song “Where That Came From” has officially landed the singer on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. It’s his first radio-charting song in about 20 years, according to the singer’s team. “Where That Came From” marked Travis’s first new song since he suffered a near-fatal stroke back …
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The artificial intelligence deepfake scourge has claimed another susceptible victim: Katy Perry’s mom. Perry was definitely not at the Met Gala last night, but photos of “her” in a billowing floral gown befitting the “Garden of Time” dress code nevertheless started circulating online. Arguably, with a quick glance, one could …
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Randy Travis, who lost much of his speech in a 2013 stroke, used artificial intelligence technology to clone his voice for his first recording in more than a decade. Travis, his longtime producer Kyle Lehning, Travis’s wife Mary, and Warner Music Nashville co-chair and co-president Cris Lacy spoke with CBS …
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FKA Twigs is developing a deepfake AI version of herself to engage with her fans, the singer revealed on Tuesday. The musician is set totestify on Capitol Hill later today to encourage heightened regulation of the technology. The artist cited AI as a potentially helpful tool for recording artists to …
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After the threat of legal action from Tupac’s estate, Drake removed his Kendrick Lamar diss “Taylor Made Freestyle,” which appeared to feature an AI-generated version of Tupac’s voice. Drake shared the song last Friday, releasing it on the heels of “Push Ups,” his response to Lamar’s verse on Futrue and …
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The Tupac Shakur estate sent Drake a cease-and-desist letter, demanding he take down his Kendrick Lamar diss, “Taylor Made Freestyle,” because it allegedly used an unauthorized AI-generated version of Tupac’s voice. The letter, sent by lawyer Howard King and obtained by Rolling Stone, called the use of AI Tupac a …
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