Sheryl Crow is blasting Drake for utilizing an AI model of Tupac Shakur’s voice in a current tune dissing Kendrick Lamar.
Speaking in regards to the risk generative synthetic intelligence poses to artists in an interview with BBC final week, the country-pop singer stated the expertise is a “slippery slope” that “goes against everything humanity is based on.”
Crow stated she was notably disturbed by Drake’s use of AI on the monitor “Taylor Made Freestyle.” The monitor accommodates a verse dissing Lamar delivered by an AI-generated imitation of Shakur, who died in 1996.
“You cannot bring people back from the dead and believe that they would stand for that,” Crow instructed the BBC.
Shakur’s property felt equally, demanding Drake take down the monitor on April 24. The following day, Drake pulled “Taylor Made Freestyle” from his Instagram.
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The “If It Makes You Happy” singer went on to marvel why Drake ever thought it was a good suggestion to launch the monitor.
“I’m sure Drake thought, ‘Yeah, I shouldn’t do it, but I’ll say sorry later,’” she stated. “But it’s already done, and people will find it even if he takes it down. It’s hateful. It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us.”
Crow beforehand railed towards AI in her newest album, “Evolution,” launched in spring.
On the album’s titular monitor, she recounts her personal expertise listening to an uncanny AI creation, singing, “Turned on the radio and there it was / A song that sounded like something I wrote / The voice and melody were hauntingly / So familiar that I thought it was a joke.”
In a press release shared in tandem with the tune’s launch, Crow stated, “Stephen Hawking worried that A.I. would replace humans.”
“As a mom, I want to leave a better world for my children, a healthier planet,” she wrote, asking “Is A.I. going to be a benevolent partner in these goals or not? It’s unsettling, and this song deals with those anxieties.”
