A student behind some of the popular AI-generated music on TikTok discussed how easy it was to make the songs sound real.
The Verge reported the news. Jered Chavez, a college student in Florida, told the outlet: "I was very surprised how easy it was. Right out of the AI, it sounds pretty good. It sounds real."
"It's honestly kind of scary how easy these things are to do," he added.
Chavez has been going viral on TikTok for his AI-generated music over the last few months. One such clip was labeled as "Drake, Kendrick and Ye sing Fukashigi no Carte," with the latter two names referring to Kendrick Lamar and the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. The song was an anime theme tune.
That particular clip has amassed more than 13 million views on the platform.
Since then, he's been generating more clips. Chavez runs acapella versions of songs through AI models that are trained to sound like famous musicians, The Verge reported. The videos have yet to be removed by TikTok and many have gathered millions of views.
Another viral AI-generated song, "Heart on My Sleeve," which mimicked Drake and The Weeknd, went viral last month. The song was posted by an unidentified TikToker and was streamed millions of times before it was removed by Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube.
Some record labels and media companies have already indicated they are willing to push back on the new kind of content. Drake also criticized the new technology via his Instagram story, The Guardian reported.
Last month, Universal Music Group asked streaming sites to block AI companies from training generative AI models on lyrics and melodies on copyrighted songs from Universal's catalog, according to emails viewed by the Financial Times.
Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek, appeared to address some of the concerns during Spotify's first-quarter earnings call last month.
"I think the AI pushback from the copyright industry or labels and media companies, and it's really around really important topics and issues like name and likeness, what is an actual copyright, who owns the right to something where you upload something and claim it to be Drake, it's really not and so on. Those are legitimate concerns," Ek said.
