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Michael Jackson never sang careless whisper George Michael and Freddie Mercury did not play yesterday by The Beatles, but today we can hear their voices in those iconic songs thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI). A subculture emerges on TikTok of creators who use generative AI to produce covers that never existed before. Of the artists who are no longer with us.
If there’s an unstoppable wave of AI-generated covers on the web, it’s because making a good-quality one is relatively easy. As with all other generative AI systems, The result depends, to a large extent, on the level of training of the program and how well the artist’s voice is recognized. The more songs of an artist the AI systems “eat up”, the higher the mastering and the ability to convert the audio into other original songs. Prolific singers with worldwide recognizable vocal tones, such as Michael Jackson or Rihanna, are favorites of AI creators.
Users enjoying the AI-generated covers say, “It’s the closest we’ve got to life.”
From a user point of view, if we compare it to the process of creating a poem using chatbots like ChatGPT or a board that didn’t exist before with Programming From Midjourney, creating a cover using AI is a bit more complicated. In the first cases, it only requires that the user have the ability to express what they want in words, while, In songs, you must first “clone the artist’s voice”, and then overlay it over an instrumental track using traditional audio editing software.
Although controversial, Tools for cloning a person’s voice abound on the web and being “experimental” and open source, they are free. The AI consumes a person’s voice files and creates a “template” or “signature” that can, in a sense, be shaped to sing or say whatever the user wants. Diff-SVC is one of the most popular tools nowadays. On the other hand, there are websites such as beta.covers.ai that already have all the steps automated and have created libraries of artists’ sounds to reinterpret the song that users choose.
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