Productive AIs like ChatGPT and Midjourney and voice and discourse cloning technologies like Uberduck have ushered in a new era on the internet. It is now possible to sing different songs with the voice of any famous artist and even write a song from scratch.
We have seen examples of this technology most recently in ‘feat’ songs such as the cat song created with Eminem’s voice and fake Drake and The Weeknd. However, one person decided to take this one step further and start scamming. He got results from this decision as well…
Fake Frank Ocean made thousands of dollars with ‘leaks’:
A Discord user named “mourningassasin” started selling new Frank Ocean songs for money, which he claimed to have leaked. Frank Ocean fans, who have been watching the path of the new album since 2016, also fell into the trap.
The truth was revealed by the moderator of the Discord server that this user shared. In a statement from the server, the moderator stated that all the songs sold were fake, and it was confirmed that the two songs titled “The Line” and “Steer It” were made with artificial intelligence.
However, this fact was learned after it was too late. Speaking to Motherboard, the user explained, “We managed to earn $ 9700” using the pronoun “we”.
The record company that Frank Ocean works with has not yet made a statement.
We understand Frank Ocean’s audio cloning, so how is the music itself created?
Unfortunately, our fraudulent friend did not share which artificial intelligence technologies he used. However, there is a lot of artificial intelligence on the internet that creates an infrastructure for your music. Google has even launched MusicLM, its artificial intelligence that turns what you type and hum into music just yesterday.
Of course, our scammers may have created the music infrastructure themselves from scratch.
Examples of what we’ve seen in the past that have gone viral are:
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