A creator on YouTube has said that copyright notices were filed by Roc Nation Jay-Z’s company Roc Nation has reportedly filed takedown notices against “deepfake” videos that use artificial intelligence to make him rap Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ and Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” soliloquy. “Deepfakes” commonly use artificial intelligence software to combine and superimpose existing images and videos of a person to make it look they have said something they have not.
A creator on YouTube, only known as Vocal Synthesis, has said that copyright notices were filed by Roc Nation. The user, who has 41,000 subscribers on YouTube, claims that Roc Nation stated: “This content unlawfully uses an AI to impersonate our client’s voice.” Alth
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