Picture Credit score: 我是CK不是CKSingaporean singer Stefanie Solar’s voice has taken off in China. The one downside is the songs are AI-generated fakes.
The discharge of her debut album Yan Zi in 2000 helped Solar turn into a family identify in China and Hong Kong. Regardless of not releasing a music in additional than six years, Solar’s voice has exploded on-line. On many main Chinese language social media platforms, AI-generated content material created beneath the identify AI-Solar Yanzi have attracted an enormous following. This AI-generated voice has launched a number of covers of well-known Chinese language pop music together with Jay Chou’s “Hair Like Snow” and Nan Quan Mama’s “Wet Day.”
Individuals on platforms like Bilibili are joking that AI fakes are essentially the most diligent singers within the Mandarin music trade. That’s as a result of these fakes will be generated virtually in a single day. The hashtag “Stefanie Solar changing into the primary musician to get replaced by AI,” can also be trending on the Chinese language social media websites. In the meantime, followers of Stefanie Solar are fairly properly over the mimicry.
“This sounds faux. It mimics the vocal tone of Solar round 2001 and Jay Chou’s ‘Hair Like Snow’ hadn’t been launched at the moment,” reads one pedantic remark. “AI-Solar Yanzi can mimic her tone, however not her feelings. It might imitate her voice, however not her dwell performances,” reads one other.
On Might 22, Solar took to social media for the primary time to handle the looks of those AI generated covers. “My followers have formally switched sides and accepted that I’m certainly ‘an unpopular singer’ whereas my AI persona is the present scorching property. I imply actually, how do you struggle with somebody who’s placing out new albums each couple of minutes?” the singer asks.
“The very process that we now have at all times satisfied ourwelves; that the formation of thought or opinion is just not replicable by robots, the very concept that that is past their league, is now the looming factor that can threaten 1000’s of human conjured jobs. Authorized, medical, accountancy, and at present—singing a music.”