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Are the Drake Vocals on ‘Wah Gwan Delilah’ an AI Deepfake?

Drake's "Wah Gwan Delilah" vocals - are they real or an AI deepfake? Billboard contacted two companies specializing in AI detection to find out.

When Snowd4y, a Toronto parody rapper, released the track “Wah Gwan Delilah” featuring Drake via Soundcloud on Monday (June 3), it instantly went viral. “Our first analysis reveals SOMEtraces of [generative] AI, but there seems to be a lot of mix involved,” wrote Romain Simiand, chief product officer of Ircam Amplify, a French company that creates audio tools for rights holders, in an email response. The track poked fun at Drake and his supposed “Brazilian Butt Lift” during the rapper’s beef with Lamar, and in the process, it became the first major use of an AI-generated sample.

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