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David Guetta uses ChatGPT and uberduck.ai to deepfake Eminem rap for DJ set

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Re: David Guetta uses ChatGPT and uberduck.ai to deepfake Eminem rap for DJ set

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The music industry will not like this, seems like a short circuit around royalties and the value of a music deal with an artist.

There is a very big difference between putting out a record and playing something at a performance. The latter is a lot more lax.

Re: David Guetta uses ChatGPT and uberduck.ai to deepfake Eminem rap for DJ set

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post #13

The music industry will not like this, seems like a short circuit around royalties and the value of a music deal with an artist.

Which artist will be the first to sell a licensed LLM (and other models?) trained on their own discography?

Well now that’s an interesting thought. I bet you’re absolutely right with this prediction.

Re: David Guetta uses ChatGPT and uberduck.ai to deepfake Eminem rap for DJ set

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My favourite thing about this is how proud he is of copying this idea from a million people on TikTok.

It seems similar to the DJ process though, right? Their creation process involves sampling, mixing, curating, etc. so the novelty is in figuring it out and getting it to work with his set. I’m sure the first person to release a rap record felt proud even though they were copying lots of people who were rapping on the street. The novelty here is being the first dj to do this for his crowd, not that he invented the pro…

I mean.. there’s a reason that others haven’t really done this as far as I know and that he only used a tiny sample for a couple seconds: the output from AI voice generation generally has a ton of artifacts and isn’t something you’d want to play on a festival sized sound system for more than a few seconds.

So he basically did the only acceptable thing I’d consider doing with this and.. it’s just not that interesting?

Re: David Guetta uses ChatGPT and uberduck.ai to deepfake Eminem rap for DJ set

#26

The music industry will not like this, seems like a short circuit around royalties and the value of a music deal with an artist.

yeah - i wonder if uberduck has paid licenses to any of the rappers voices they have available on their site...

they're flouting a sample clip with eminem on their homepage.

this just seems like clever marketing to me.

Re: David Guetta uses ChatGPT and uberduck.ai to deepfake Eminem rap for DJ set

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems similar to the DJ process though, right? Their creation process involves sampling, mixing, curating, etc. so the novelty is in figuring it out and getting it to work with his set. I’m sure the first person to release a rap record felt proud even though they were copying lots of people who were rapping on the street. The novelty here is being the first dj to do this for his crowd, not that he invented the pro…

I mean.. there’s a reason that others haven’t really done this as far as I know and that he only used a tiny sample for a couple seconds: the output from AI voice generation generally has a ton of artifacts and isn’t something you’d want to play on a festival sized sound system for more than a few seconds. So he basically did the only acceptable thing I’d consider doing with this and.. it’s just not that interesting?

I don't think this is true any more. At least, I've heard generated audio from the latest models that runs for well over a minute without obvious artifacts.

Re: David Guetta uses ChatGPT and uberduck.ai to deepfake Eminem rap for DJ set

#28

I saw this via a LinkedIn post which said it used ChatGPT and uberduck.ai, the search on there doesn’t seem to work for posts so I can’t find the original source unfortunately, but it would make sense that he used those tools

I don't see why he would need ChatGPT, seems like a short enough snippet to just write it yourself

I'd bet he got more lyrics than that from ChatGPT, but was unable to make Uberduck "rap" something that matches the rhythm in any meaningful capacity. So he ended up using just a short snippet of the output.

Even the real Eminem sounds horrible around that speed (~130 BPM), you're way more likely to hear a Drake mashup in that range (or up-until-recently Kanye). I know these sorts of famous AI voice generators don't have the notion of speed or rhythm, but I'd still bet AI-generated Drake would've been much easier to work with.

Re: David Guetta uses ChatGPT and uberduck.ai to deepfake Eminem rap for DJ set

#29
post #13

The music industry will not like this, seems like a short circuit around royalties and the value of a music deal with an artist.

Which artist will be the first to sell a licensed LLM (and other models?) trained on their own discography?

In a way, it's similar to the actors selling their digital images in the movie The Congress. It's inevitable.
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