With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube

On Friday, I linked to several videos by Vocal Synthesis, a new YouTube channel dedicated to audio deepfakes — AI-generated speech that mimics human voices, synthesized from text by training a state-of-the-art neural network on a large corpus of audio. The videos are remarkable, pairing famous voices with unlikely dialogue: Bob Dylan singing Britney Spears,…

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