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Céline Dion's team has warned fans that "unsanctioned" AI recordings using her voice and name are circulating on streaming services. In 2023 Sevdaliza went the other way, opening an AI model of her voice, Dahlia, to anyone on the Myvox platform for half the royalties. Both are legitimate choices, and each depends on consent being written down somewhere a platform can act on it.
AIvia Dazed
At a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the draft NO FAKES Act on 30 April 2024, FKA twigs said she had spent a year building an AI version of herself that speaks in her voice, and argued the line between a useful tool and a theft is whether the artist controls it. Her label's CEO, sitting beside her, argued the new right should be transferable. That tension is the real story.
Artist rightsvia Tech Policy Press
A Chilean producer recorded a track with AI voices made to sound like Bad Bunny, Justin Bieber and Daddy Yankee, and it went viral on TikTok. Bad Bunny told fans who liked it to leave his WhatsApp channel, and the creator says Apple Music and Spotify then pulled versions of it. Nobody has said which rule was applied, which is the real story: without a law covering voice, takedown decisions are left to platforms.
AIvia Página 7
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