Fans Create Their Own Drake Songs Using AI Technology
Fans all over the world are creating their own Drake songs using AI generators and posting them on their social media handles. There is a website called Drayk.it which asks the users to put in words, and in turn the AI will create a Drake song based on the prompt. It takes only a minute to create their own song, or you can roll the dice icon which creates songs about random topics from “a shy elephant who dreams of learning to skateboard” to “a giant octopus that’s a master of the guitar, living on a tropical island with a band of exotic birds”.
“AI Drake song about a turtle in a pirate ship, raiding other ships for a special treasure. This is better than God’s Plan,” one fan wrote.
AI Drake song about a turtle in a pirate ship, raiding other ships for a special treasure. This is better than God's Plan https://t.co/UU9uoklSvY pic.twitter.com/WXJZByGt9U
— Wilson Hobbs 🌁 (@WiLSONSACCOUNT) January 24, 2023
Another Twitter user shared: “Lost my wallet/had it stolen the other day, and decided to have AI Drake write a song about it.”
The website is created by the virtual music studio Mayk.it. This studio was founded by Stefán Heinrich Henriquez and Akiva Bamberger, who spoke about their new website and claimed that the “premise is that everyone should be able to make songs and work as an artist.”
“We’re unleashing music creativity for everyone. When we looked at other music-making apps, we found they were just too complex for us. They were almost all developed by professional musicians who didn’t have much empathy for beginners.”
Nick Cave does not share the same emotions. He described AI songwriting “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human”.
Responding to a fan who had shared lyrics to an algorithmically generated song with Nick Cave, he wrote that “with all the love and respect in the world”, the track is “bulls**t” and “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human”.
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He added that “songs arise out of suffering” and “predicated upon the complex, internal human struggle of creation and, well, as far as I know, algorithms don’t feel. Data doesn’t suffer”. In December, many artists also protested the use of art created using AI.
– Riya Sohini
