Will artificial intelligence definitely change the face of the music industry, or just hurt it? With the rise of artificial intelligence, we have been able to hear the voices of dozens of renowned artists on songs that did not belong to them, but also new titles created from scratch with their voice thanks to AI.
This is particularly the case for Frank Ocean, whose label was the target of a major scam, Vice reports. The American artist offered an ideal opportunity: his last official album was in 2016, and he had not returned to the stage for six years, until a bumpy appearance at the American music festival Coachella last April. On this occasion, he mysteriously hinted that a new album might be on the way.
New alleged songs by the artist then appeared on the internet, with this detail that the person concerned did not write the lyrics, or even sing: everything was created thanks to artificial intelligence.
Behind this scam is an internet user known as a “mourningassasin”. The latter told Vice that, among the various songs he posted on a forum, at least one of them was actually from the works of Frank Ocean: a way to build his credibility so that he could easily sell evil later on.
“Everyone bought it”
As soon as it is published, it is requested by dozens of purchase offers. “I immediately understood that everyone believed in that,” he told Vice. He claims to have amassed about 13,000 Canadian dollars (about 8,800 euros) thanks to this scam.
However, in many forums dedicated to the artist, fans were not fooled and quickly identified the hoax. The scammer ended up admitting that the music was fake to the administrator of the forum where he had sold it.
Neither Frank Ocean nor his entourage reacted to the situation. Separately, Soundcloud removed all occurrences of music posted by “mourningassasin,” according to Vice. At the end of April, streaming music platforms had to organize in the face of the huge success of a fake duet between singers Drake and The Weeknd, now officially untraceable.
Source: BFM TV
