Stefanie Sun, as the "king of timbre", has won the favor of many fans with her unique timbre. Recently, on major video platforms, "unpopular singer Stefanie Sun" relied on various AI "clones" to cover songs of different genres. The duration is touching, and the works are popular in the circle. From pop, to rock, to "magic", there is no style of music that AI Stefanie Sun can't control.
Search for "AI Stefanie Sun" at station B. From pop to rock, from Jay Chou to Wu Bai, there is no style of music that AI Stefanie Sun can't control. After a rough look at dozens of cover songs, there are even netizens who are singing for "AI Stefanie Sun". Organize albums.
In addition to "AI Stefanie Sun", there are also "AI Jay Chou" and "AI Wang Xinling"... It is reported that these cover songs were made and uploaded by many UP masters through open source projects. Some people in the industry said that AI music production is actually nothing new, but now the popularity of generative AI has lowered the threshold for AI cover songs again.
The cover song of "They" was self-produced and uploaded by the creator through the open source project "so-vits-svc". so-vits-svc is a singing voice conversion model based on VITS. By inputting vocal samples, the training model can learn to master a person's timbre, sound quality and pronunciation characteristics, build a set of voice models for this person, and then use AI to generate the target timbre singing.
With the popularity of AI singers, AI training courses such as "Teach you to create your own AI Stefanie Sun" and "Let your favorite singer sing for you" are also launched quickly, and the threshold for making such songs is getting lower and lower.
However, while AI cover songs are popular, some netizens have already paid attention to copyright issues. The copyright issues involved in AI cover songs mainly include: Does AI cover song infringe the singer's voice copyright? Does the AI cover infringe the music copyright of other singers? Does the song covered by AI have its own copyright?
There are still no clear legal provisions and judicial precedents on these issues in our country, and there are many controversies and difficulties.