• AIPressRoom
  • Posts
  • AI-generated Drake track up for Grammy nomination

AI-generated Drake track up for Grammy nomination

A viral monitor from the nameless producer “Ghostwriter” utilizing a man-made intelligence (AI)-generated vocal monitor of the rapper Drake has been submitted for consideration for a Grammy award, according to a Sept. 5 report in The New York Instances.

The monitor “Coronary heart on My Sleeve” has been submitted by the Ghostwriter workforce to the Recording Academy — the group behind the Grammys — for nomination within the Greatest Rap Track and Track of the Yr classes, a consultant advised the NYT.

Take heed to this AI generated track that includes Drake & The Weeknd.

It goes so rattling arduous.

It is by “Ghostwriter977” on TikTok and it is blowing up on socials + streaming platforms.

UMG, which controls round 1/3 of the worldwide music market, has already requested streaming platforms to ban… pic.twitter.com/roz2EfI48M

— Roberto Nickson (@rpnickson) April 16, 2023

In each of these classes, the award is attributed to the songwriter, who the Ghostwriter consultant additionally confirmed to be a human. 

Earlier in 2023, the Grammys up to date its coverage for awards within the upcoming award season, saying that music with AI-generated components is eligible for an award. The catch is that the class for which the monitor is nominated should be for a human-created portion of the track.

The CEO of the Grammys, Harvey Mason Jr., confirmed the coverage and mentioned music with AI parts is “completely eligible” for a Grammy nomination. He reiterated this to the NYT concerning the Ghostwriter AI-Drake monitor, saying:

“So far as the artistic aspect, it’s completely eligible as a result of it was written by a human.”

He additionally identified that the Academy additionally seems to be at whether or not or not the track was commercially obtainable, which is a part of Grammy guidelines. It says a monitor should have “normal distribution” to be eligible, together with availability on streaming platforms. 

Nonetheless, “Coronary heart on My Sleeve” was faraway from all main streaming companies, regardless of trade specialists saying that its use of AI fell right into a “authorized grey space.”

Cointelegraph reached out to the Recording Academy for additional remark. 

In April, Common Music Group — one of many trade’s most distinguished document labels — sent a mass email to main streaming companies, together with Spotify and Apple Music, requesting they block AI companies from harvesting melodies and lyrics from copyrighted songs and take away songs violating copyright. 

Shortly after, Spotify was reported to have ramped up policing of tracks violating copyright infringement on its platform, in addition to blocking synthetic streaming of songs to extend hear depend.