YouTube is developing an artificial intelligence tool that will allow content creators to record audio in the voices of famous musicians.
The video streaming giant has reached out to music companies for the rights to songs that can be used to train new AI tools. Although discussions between the two parties are still ongoing, the two companies have not yet signed an agreement.
Last month, YouTube launched a new set of AI tools, including one that allows creators to create backgrounds for music videos and another that enables automatic synchronization with other languages.
The company wanted to incorporate new audio reproduction tools into these ads, but was unable to obtain the necessary rights in time.
The legal relationship between artificial intelligence and creative works involving the use of human names, images, and likenesses is still evolving and has led to lawsuits. YouTube needs to figure out how to use this new technology legally.
It's not clear whether discussions about YouTube's AI audio cloning tool will help mitigate potential copyright issues raised by music companies amid the rise of AI-generated music tracks that imitate famous musicians.
The question became highly relevant earlier this year when Drake's AI-generated song went viral.
Some musicians have embraced AI-generated music, while many others have called for regulations to protect their voices from being copied without consent.
AI-generated music currently exists in a legal gray area because it is difficult to determine copyright for songs that mimic the artist's unique voice but do not contain directly protected vocal recordings or lyrics.
It's unclear whether training an AI audio player constitutes copyright infringement, but that hasn't dampened interest in developing AI-generated musical capabilities. Meta, Google, and Stability AI have released several tools for creating AI-generated music this year. music..
YouTube positions itself as a partner to support the use of generative AI technology and has developed a number of generative AI tools over the past year, although it is unclear whether it can legally provide AI voice to content creators. Transcription is a tool that doesn't do this. Attracting a lot of resistance. Copyright dispute.