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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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Rappers built their music (literary) over others’ samples. Now it is their turn to be "creatively" used.

Rappers had to pay for those samples

Not in the 80s TMK (between the first samplers and first lawsuits). Now what will this be called ? stealing voice style ?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using impersonators has its own issues. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co .

But that’s in a commercial setting, this is during a musical performance. The audience was not tricked into showing up to an Eminem performance and were not tricked into thinking that Eminem was on stage at any point. This is protected speech.

> But that’s in a commercial setting, this is during a musical performance.

This means he wasn’t paid for the performance, is that correct?

Because otherwise doing it for paid performances and promoting it on social media but saying “it’s not commercial bro” doesn’t seem very genuine

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

#75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last time I checked, David Guetta was not producing techno. Eventually he spends most of his time with his arm in the air so calling him a dj is a huge stretch too.

The comment you’re replying to is an Eminem lyric; it’s a joke.

Didn't knew that, thanks! Pretty sure someone electronic artist will have had it remixed right?

edit: took me 30s to find several of them on youtube.

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

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> This is protected speech According to a quick google search, even cover bands performing live are required to pay royalties to the original artists whose songs they're performing. Maybe there's some loophole when using an artist's likeness while changing the actual music and lyrics, I don't know. But "protected speech" isn't meant to be a way to make money off of other people's work. Curious what part of "Midler v.…

You’re thinking about this wrong. Do I need to ask permission to impersonate Eminem during a comedy performance? How about during a musical performance? The answer is no. This is fair use 101. If you cover a song of his while doing an impersonation then this is covered by the performance fees the venue you’re playing at pays every year to ASCAP and BMI.

Satire is protected under fair use so yes you don’t need permission for a comedy performance. A musical performance? Hell yes.

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

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post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’re thinking about this wrong. Do I need to ask permission to impersonate Eminem during a comedy performance? How about during a musical performance? The answer is no. This is fair use 101. If you cover a song of his while doing an impersonation then this is covered by the performance fees the venue you’re playing at pays every year to ASCAP and BMI.

Satire is protected under fair use so yes you don’t need permission for a comedy performance. A musical performance? Hell yes.

No, you’re not correct. Cover bands don’t need to ask permission. The venues they play at should be writing down the songs they’re playing and submitting them to PROs, but the bands don’t need to do anything.

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

#78

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

This seems very close to remixing or covering music, which already happens on a big scale, with royalties in place. If they can clearly recognize someone's voice/style, then they would want a piece of the pie. Outside the law, music industry still has a lot of power, and platforms like Spotify are not going to risk those relationships.

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

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post #3

You can do it yourself use a track of your fav rapper without background music and feed it into tortoise-tts and play with the heat.

You could use https://vocalremover.org/ to remove music. I've used it for sampling speech out of tv programmes with background audio and the results are immense.

sounds interesting - but no privacy policy etc. looks a bit dodgy..
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