David Guetta Uses AI To Create Eminem Collaboration

David Guetta has utilised AI to add an Eminem verse to his song.

The fact is, it isn't Eminem at all, rather he is using an AI generated voice to mimmick the rapper on his track. 

He posted a video of him playing the track at a recent gig on Twitter last week with the caption, “Let me introduce you to… Emin-AI-em." The lyrics stated, "This is the future rave sound / I’m getting awesome and underground."

The video then cuts away to an interview of Guetta talking about the process stating that, “I discovered those websites about AI – basically, you can write lyrics in the style of any artist you like. So I typed ‘write a verse in the style of Eminem about future rave’. And I went to another AI website that I can recreate the voice. 

"I put the text in that and I played the record and people went nuts. Obviously I won’t release this commercially."

Let me introduce you to… Emin-AI-em 👀 pic.twitter.com/48prbMIBtv

— David Guetta (@davidguetta) February 3, 2023

Google has created a new Artificial Intelligence system, MusicLM, designed to produce music of any genre from a text description. 

Trained on a dataset of 280,000 hours of music, MusicLM learned to generate coherent songs, according to this peer-reviewed paper MusicLM: Generating Music From Text.

the multinational tech giant won't be releasing the platform anytime soon due to concerns over its impact on the global music industry. The researchers noted that the program tended to incorporate copyrighted material into the generated song. 

"We acknowledge the risk of potential misappropriation of creative content associated to the use case," the paper's co-authors wrote.

"We strongly emphasise the need for more future work in tackling these risks associated to music generation."

Some legal experts have also chimed in on the ethical debate, claiming that Google's training of MusicLM - by learning through thousands of already published musical pieces and songs - is in and of itself a copyright violation.