So it seems like this is a case where someone dreamed up an idea of a song they’d like to hear and then had an AI do the voices. Now, there’s been a song going around called “Heart on my Sleeve.” the song has what sounds like the voices of Drake and The Weeknd, but the lyrics are not theirs. And I want to start with what people are calling Fake Drake or Deepfake Drake. casey newtonĪ lot has been happening in the world of AI and music. And finally, we talk to former BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith about what the decline of social media will mean for the news business. kevin rooseĪnd you’re listening to “Hard Fork.” This week on the show, is deepfake Drake the future of the music industry or just a huge gift to copyright lawyers? Then we play a new game called HatGPT. I’m Kevin Roose, a tech columnist for “The New York Times.” casey newtonĪnd I’m Casey Newton from Platformer. I just want to say that the human race really deserves whatever it has coming to it, OK? This is not great, folks. So either someone is just LARPing a war using this talking AI duck, or there are actual ground troops who are talking with an AI duck on Bluesky trying to get their next move. How should we proceed? And the duck says, “T-72 B3M tank - very tough.

So someone says, Birduck, a T-72B3M main battle tank with explosive reactive armor is blocking our retreat. So someone asks the duck, what would you try to communicate to a tank crew to get them to abandon aid to a civil power operations for an unlawful, unelected, murderous regime? And the duck says, “covertly approach, offa peace, explain truth behind regime.” casey newton The duck plays a central role? kevin roose So apparently there’s this whole group of people that are using it to plan a civilian uprising. So it’ll say whatever - it’ll talk about whatever you want. To my recollection from nursery school, the only thing the duck says is quack, quack. So Birduck, who is a little chat bot, I guess, with a yellow rubber ducky avatar thing, will basically just respond to whatever you type to it with duck language. But the most popular account on it, at least the one that is on my feed the most, is this account called Birduck. This is the decentralized Twitter rival backed by Jack Dorsey. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email with any questions. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. This transcript was created using speech recognition software. the future of the music industry? Musicians are split. Transcript Deepfake Drake, HatGPT and Ben Smith on the End of the BuzzFeed Era Is A.I.

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