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Lily Allen has revealed she feared she was the victim of an AI theft as musicians become increasingly vulnerable to unlicensed usage of their work.
A dance track titled Somebody Else was released online last week with vocals uncannily like Ms Allen’s set to a backing track in the style of the British DJ Fred Again.
Fans were sent into a tailspin proclaiming ‘Lily Allen has returned to music’, because she has not released any new material in seven years, and the song was played on BBC Radio One.
Ms Allen, 39, known for her hits Smile, Hard Out Here and The Fear, said: ‘We don’t know if it’s a real person singing or, if it is indeed, an AI version of my voice.
Lily Allen, known for her hits including Smile, has revealed she feared she was the victim of an AI theft
A dance track titled Somebody Else was released online last week with vocals uncannily like Ms Allen’s
The song released last week was set to a backing track in the style of the British DJ Fred Again
‘It’s just bizarre. I don’t think it sounds like me to be honest but lots of people do.
‘My cousin Grace was like, “Oh my god, you’ve got a new song out with Fred Again” and I was like, “No, I don’t”.’
Somebody Else has been claimed by mysterious group e.motion as their debut track made using AI software.
Speaking on her podcast, Miss Me, Ms Allen made the plea: ‘E.motion, if you’re listening, would you get in touch? I want them to tell us who it is and if it is my voice AI-ed or if it is a real person.’
An official Instagram page for the electronic dance group later assured Ms Allen that they had not used an AI version of her voice on the track.
AI has already recreated an almost exact replica of Taylor Swift’s voice, a threat which was discovered after it became a trend for fans to use AI to predict what her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, would sound like before its release.
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