Grimes thinks Spotify should have a section for AI music

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Grimes has discussed AI and streaming services, saying she thinks Spotify and others should have a section dedicated to it.The singer recently revealed that she is currently beta testing her own AI voice mimicking software that will allow users to record vocals in Grimes’ voice, with a hit single from Kito featuring ‘AI Grimes’ released soon after.Now, in a conversation with Jaguar on the UTOPIA Talks podcast, Grimes has discussed consent with regards to AI and the voice of artists being used by others.“I think it’s good to have consent,” she responded. “It wouldn’t personally bother me, but I just still think it’s good to respect people, like if they don’t want that… It is a lot, you are like foregoing creative control.

And so you sort of have to be like open to that.“I think there’s systems that can make it a bit easier. Like we really want a petition to Spotify to, you know, it’s like you have your top tracks and then your new your albums and then your new releases and features,” she added.“Like if they made also an AI section, then it would be easier to like to compartmentalise that stuff.

And then people could also understand that it’s not like the artist’s outputting and it becomes less confusing and quality control I think would be a bit easier…”With regards to using the vocals of deceased artists, Grimes added: “It’s so tricky.

I would say no. But then I also feel like someone like Prince would probably be kind of down. So, I mean, if I was just making a call, I would say like friends of Prince could do it, you know, like Lizzo could probably do it, but like, I wouldn’t do it.“I don’t know, I feel like maybe that’s like a reasonable way to handle it.