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Novel Deepfake Song Pulled from Music Streaming Services After Allegedly Violating Artist's Rights
- Occurred
- Apr 17, 2023
- Published
- Apr 19, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
The deepfake performance of "Heart On My Sleeve" created to mimic the voice and musical styles of Drake and The Weeknd is no longer available on several streaming services after their record label served copyright takedown notices to the platforms.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- @ghostwriter
Harmed parties
- Universal Music Group
- The Weeknd
- Drake
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated voice mimicry of artists led to copyright takedowns, fitting deepfake category with moderate harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8