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Tupac Estate Demands Drake Take Down ‘Taylor Made Freestyle’ Over AI Vocals

Tupac's estate has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Drake, demanding he remove 'Taylor Made Freestyle' over its alleged use of an AI Tupac voice.

“Taylor Made Freestyle” arrived last Friday and not only appeared to feature AI vocals from Tupac, but also an AI-generated Snoop Dogg. King’s letter alludes to one of thebiggest copyright issues surrounding AI: Large language models trained oncopyrighted works without proper licensing or credit. “You personally are well acquainted both with publicity rights and the laws that protect them, and with the harm that unauthorized AI impersonations can cause to artists, including yourself,” King wrote, adding: Even more recently, no doubt with your approval and possibly even at your request, your record label took down a well-publicized AI imitation of you and the Weeknd with a great deal of news coverage highlighting how damaging the fake was to you.”

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