Yikes! Singer Sheryl Crow calls Drake “hateful” for using AI-generated vocals of the late Tupac Shakur, adding “You cannot bring people back from the dead.”
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While recently speaking with BBC ahead of her upcoming album ‘Evolution,’ which slams the use and effects of AI (artificial intelligence), nine-time Grammy Award-winning musician Sheryl Crow dragged Drake for his use of the technology on his Kendrick Lamar diss track “Taylor Made Freestyle.”
On the track, Drake uses AI-generated vocals of the late rapper Tupac “2Pac” Shakur and AI-generated vocals of Snoop Dogg. Shortly after its release, the Toronto rapper pulled the track from the internet after being hit with a cease-and-desist from the “Hit Em Up” rapper’s estate.
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Sheryl Crow claimed AI technology is a “slippery slope” and a “betrayal” that “goes against everything humanity is based on.” She claims that she first began to focus on the software last year after meeting a young songwriter who had been using it in her work. Crow said that the young artist was upset that male artists would not listen to her demos so she paid to have an AI clone of singer-songwriter John Mayer replace her vocals.
Crow said that when she herself heard the song, she was “so terrified” that she was “literally hyperventilating.” She added, “I know John and I know the nuances of his voice. And there would be no way you’d have been able to tell that he was not singing that song.”
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Crow’s fear of AI only worsened when she learned that Drake used AI to resurrect 2Pac. Dragging Drake for using AI Tupac Shakur vocals, Sheryl Crow told BBC, “You cannot bring people back from the dead and believe that they would stand for that. I’m sure Drake thought, ‘Yeah, I shouldn’t do it, but I’ll say sorry later.’ But it’s already done, and people will find it even if he takes it down. It’s hateful. It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us.”
Sheryl Crow continued to reveal that as a mother of two teenagers, she is worried about the effects AI has not only in music but in politics and society, especially when it comes to the spread of misinformation and AI taking over the workforce and daily tasks. She said, “I talk to my kids about it. I’m like, ‘You’re growing up with this thing and it doesn’t seem dangerous to you because you’re a frog in a pot of water. But the water is only just starting to boil, and you won’t realize it’s getting hotter until we’re all floating on the top.’”
Crow added, “AI can do lots of things, but it can’t go out and play live. So as long as we have live music, as long as we have hands holding a paintbrush, all is not lost.”
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