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Paul McCartney said an unreleased song by the quartet would be released in 2023 using technology that extracted John Lennon’s voice from an old demo
A recent trend that has gone viral on social networks like TikTok involves music created with artificial intelligence. This technology is capable of imitating the voices of world famous artists and other artists and even on songs they have never performed before.
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This phenomenon is called musical deepfakes and has developed in the online environment and amused fans of artists who share and start creating new “tracks”, but on the other hand, experts and artists wonder whether it ” joke” about how bad it is for their businesses. ,
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As much as it’s fun to watch your idol sing new songs, musical deepfakes can be used to manipulate audio and dialogue. Anita was one of the victims. In early April, excerpts from an alleged interview began to emerge where the singer said she would be releasing songs in English and that it would be unlike anything she had ever heard in the North American market. It didn’t take long and several profiles were already sharing the news, and the piece became very popular online.
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Shortly after, Anita came out in public through her official Twitter and said that the interview was not true and its content was AI generated. The use of musical deepfakes is not limited to great artists, criminals are using the technique to defraud family members, posing as someone they know to extort money from the family. According to Federal Trade Commission data, this type of scam was the most popular in the US, with more than 30,000 people claiming to have been defrauded by others pretending to be friends or family.
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