{"id":2024800,"date":"2023-09-07T15:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T19:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ai-generated-song-mimicking-drake-and-the-weeknd-submitted-for-grammy-exec-says-its-absolutely-eligible\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T15:37:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T19:37:16","slug":"ai-generated-song-mimicking-drake-and-the-weeknd-submitted-for-grammy-exec-says-its-absolutely-eligible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ai-generated-song-mimicking-drake-and-the-weeknd-submitted-for-grammy-exec-says-its-absolutely-eligible\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-generated song mimicking Drake and The Weeknd submitted for Grammy, exec confirms eligibility."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fai-generated-song-mimicking-drake-and-the-weeknd-submitted-for-grammy-exec-says-its-absolutely-eligible%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2024800&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>An AI-Generated Song Submitted for Grammy Consideration<\/h2>\n<p>An \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI<\/a>-generated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">song<\/a> \u2064 made to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-he-did-to-me-was-a-crime-cuomo-accuser-comes-forward-after-filing-criminal-complaint\/\" title=\"\u2018What He Did To Me Was A Crime\u2019: Cuomo Accuser Comes Forward After Filing Criminal Complaint\">sound similar<\/a> to real-life artists Drake \u200band The Weeknd \u200chas \u200cbeen\u200d submitted for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/grammys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grammy<\/a> consideration, per <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/music\/news\/ai-generated-drake-the-weeknd-song-submitted-for-grammys-1235714805\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Song That&#8217;s Making Waves<\/h3>\n<p>The song &#8220;Heart on My Sleeve&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ai-generated-song-mimicking-drake-and-the-weeknd-submitted-for-grammy-exec-says-its-absolutely-eligible\/\" title=\"AI-generated song mimicking Drake and The Weeknd submitted for Grammy, exec confirms eligibility.\">started gaining traction \u200cearlier<\/a> this year\u2062 after \u200cit\u200b was created by \u200can artist known as Ghostwriter.\u2063 Though the\u2063 vocals are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/super-bowl-lv-all-the-best-commercials\/\" title=\"Super Bowl LV: All The Best Commercials\">computer-generated<\/a>, \u200bthe lyrics were \u200cwritten by the person behind that name, which makes the song a\u200d contender for the best\u2063 rap song and song of the\u2064 year categories.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Recording Academy CEO\u2064 Harvey Mason Jr. explained\u2062 in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/05\/arts\/music\/ghostwriter-whiplash-travis-scott-21-savage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with The New York Times that the \u200csong is &#8220;absolutely\u2064 eligible because it was written by a\u200d human.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The \u2062Human Element<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to be \u200dgiving a nomination or an award \u200cto an\u200d AI computer or someone who \u2064just prompted AI. That&#8217;s the\u200c distinction that we&#8217;re \u2062trying to make. It&#8217;s the human award highlighting excellence, driven by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/100-million-bucks-for-four-years-rumble-ceo-sends-letter-to-joe-rogan-with-totally-legit-offer\/\" title=\"\u2018100 Million Bucks For Four Years\u2019: Rumble CEO Sends Letter To Joe Rogan With \u2018Totally Legit\u2019 Offer\">human creativity<\/a>,&#8221; \u200bhe said in a July interview with Variety.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u2064 Recording Academy made allowances for the use \u2064of AI as long as human creativity was still involved, with one example being Paul McCartney enhancing\u2064 the late \u2064John Lennon&#8217;s vocals for a Beatles song.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Eligibility Criteria<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;If three or four Beatles are singing on the \u2063record,\u2062 and one\u2062 of \u200bthe voices [has been sonically enhanced by] AI,\u200d it&#8217;s\u2063 still\u200b a \u200blive human performance \u2062with\u2063 a \u200bmore \u2064than di minimis amount by The \u2064Beatles,&#8221; Mason said. &#8220;Therefore it would \u2062be eligible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1694187778286000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1ns8RXbw95xuC2oVVw8b7b\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+\u2062 APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Grammy\u200c Awards and AI<\/h3>\n<p>Mason\u200b continued,\u2062 &#8220;What we intended to say was\u200c that material using AI can be submitted, but the human portion of the composition, or the performance, is the only portion that can be awarded or considered\u200b for a Grammy Award. So if an AI modeling system\u2062 or app built a track \u2064\u2014 &#8216;wrote&#8217; \u2064lyrics\u200c and a melody \u2014\u2064 that would not be eligible for a composition award. But if a human writes a\u200d track and\u200b AI is used to voice-model,\u2064 or\u200d create a new voice, or use somebody else&#8217;s voice, the performance\u200b would \u200bnot be eligible, but the writing of the \u2063track and the\u200c lyric or top line would \u200cbe absolutely eligible \u2063for an award.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The music exec also praised \u2064the person behind &#8220;Heart on My \u2062Sleeve&#8221; specifically, saying the artist \u200dwas &#8220;creative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>A Controversial Move<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;From my perspective, this has been an exercise for\u2064 [Ghostwriter] to try and\u2063 establish a dialogue\u2063 and create some awareness around the possibilities and what are going to be \u200bsome of the \u200cpotholes,&#8221; Mason told the outlet in \u2064July.\u2063 &#8220;I hate to put statements in his mouth, but my feeling \u200dis that he\u200b understood exactly what he was doing \u2014 he knew this was going to be controversial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AI-generated song resembling Drake and The Weeknd has been submitted for a Grammy. Titled &#8220;Heart on My Sleeve,&#8221; the track gained popularity when Ghostwriter, the artist behind it, released it. While the vocals are computer-generated, the lyrics were penned by a human. Variety reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2024801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}