A folk musician became a target for AI fakes and a copyright troll

Murphy Campbell is astatine the halfway of a brewing tempest astir AI and a breached copyright system. | Image: Murphy Campbell

In January, people creator Murphy Campbell discovered respective songs connected her Spotify illustration that did not beryllium there. They were songs that she had recorded, but she'd ne'er uploaded them to Spotify, and thing was disconnected astir the vocals.

She rapidly surmised that idiosyncratic had pulled performances of the songs she posted to YouTube, created AI covers, and uploaded them to streaming platforms nether her name. I ran 1 of the songs, "Four Marys", done 2 antithetic AI detectors, and it seemed to enactment her suspicions with some saying it was astir apt AI-generated.

Campbell was shocked, "I was benignant of nether the content that we had a small b …

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