How AI-generated music is shaking up the industry and why artists are wary

In April last year, ghostwriter977, a TikTok user, wrote and produced a song called “Heart on my sleeve”. It sounded just like the Canadian rapper Drake and the singer-songwriter The Weeknd. The song went viral, racking up 15 million views on TikTok and hundreds of thousands of views each on Spotify and YouTube. But neither Drake nor The Weeknd had a clue about the song.
They hadn’t sung a single line. Their vocals were generated by artificial intelligence (AI). The machine has moved on from synthesising sounds to generating singing voices. AI is on song everywhere.