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May. 7th, 2024 08:15 pmWho wants to hear the whitest person you know weigh in on the Kendrick v Drake diss battle that's going on? No one? Fair, but the AI aspect of this is hilarious to me.
Kendrick has been working with his label to stop copyright claims on his songs so people can do reacts, break downs and remixes and get paid for them. I don't know much about hop hop, but I do know that releasing copyright so people doing transformative stuff with your work is considered very cash money.
Drake has been doing copyright claims so fast that the Phillip DiFranco show was afraid to even air a 5 second clip because, since it's a daily show, even if they get a claim reversed they've lost most revenue from that day of work. Double checking my facts, I am seeing that as of an hour ago Drake has maybe reversed course, but it's not confirmed and this has been going on for a bit so he's very late to the party if he's finally copying Kendrick.
Why this is hilarious to me: Which of them decided to use an AI recreation of Tupac to take their side in this beef? Drake.
Drake is very much hip hop for real, but don't you dare use his music and also he disrespected Tupac. The Tupac estate got the track taken down. The person using AI is the one shutting down even clearly transformative / editorial uses of his work. That's just, yeah, that's hilarious. That is what AI enjoyers be like. (Also using AI and freaking out over legit re-use while going up against Kendrick? Way to make yourself look weak and not confident in your own work. Epic self-own... but not actually the worst self-own so far.)
Anyway, hip hop has long had an impact on what constitutes transformative use in music and this may have an impact on how that culture feels about AI voices in general.
Kendrick has been working with his label to stop copyright claims on his songs so people can do reacts, break downs and remixes and get paid for them. I don't know much about hop hop, but I do know that releasing copyright so people doing transformative stuff with your work is considered very cash money.
Drake has been doing copyright claims so fast that the Phillip DiFranco show was afraid to even air a 5 second clip because, since it's a daily show, even if they get a claim reversed they've lost most revenue from that day of work. Double checking my facts, I am seeing that as of an hour ago Drake has maybe reversed course, but it's not confirmed and this has been going on for a bit so he's very late to the party if he's finally copying Kendrick.
Why this is hilarious to me: Which of them decided to use an AI recreation of Tupac to take their side in this beef? Drake.
Drake is very much hip hop for real, but don't you dare use his music and also he disrespected Tupac. The Tupac estate got the track taken down. The person using AI is the one shutting down even clearly transformative / editorial uses of his work. That's just, yeah, that's hilarious. That is what AI enjoyers be like. (Also using AI and freaking out over legit re-use while going up against Kendrick? Way to make yourself look weak and not confident in your own work. Epic self-own... but not actually the worst self-own so far.)
Anyway, hip hop has long had an impact on what constitutes transformative use in music and this may have an impact on how that culture feels about AI voices in general.
