in music creation, saying she’s all for it. On Sunday night, she took to Twitter to share that she’d be happy to divvy royalties on a lucrative track that utilizes her singing.tweeted
, sharing a headline about how the fake Drake and fake the Weeknd song “Heart on My Sleeve” has raised questions for the industry. “Same deal as I would with any artist i collab with. Feel free to use my voice without penalty. I have no label and no legal bindings.” While Grimes is advocating for AI’s use, the music industry has been grappling with the role of AI in song creation, and its legal and financial ramifications. One of its most recent challenges came by way of the aforementioned “,” which was created from scratch by TikTok user Ghostwriter977 , which went viral after it was shared via TikTok on April 15.
Prior to its millions of hits on TikTok, however, it had been uploaded to Spotify and Apple Music on April 4. Universal Music Group, the largest music company in the world and the parent company to Republic Records , recently requested that streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music block access from AI services that might be using the music on their platforms to train their algorithms.
“The training of generative AI using our artists’ music as well as the availability of infringing content created with generative AI on DSPs, begs the question as to which side of history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on: the side of artists, fans and human creative expression, or on the side of deep fakes, fraud and denying artists their due compensation,” UMG said in a recent statement to.