google is negotiating a deal with universal music to licence artists vocals and melodies as it plans an ai tool for people to create legitimate deepfake tracksthe discussions underway are to form a partnership to safeguard artists and labels from implications of ai reports the financial times citing four people familiar with the matteraccording to sources close to the situation google and universal music are in the early stages of discussions to create a tool that would allow fans to create tracks legitimately and compensate the copyrights owners it is not yet clear when a product launch will happen google released an experimental ai tool in may that generates songs based on a text prompt meta also released its own ai tool for creating music earlier this month which was trained on 20000 hours of licensed music owned by metasources say that artists will have the option to participate another source tell that warner music has also been discussing a product with googlethere has been an increase in regulations and restrictions on music created by artificial intelligence in april universal music requested that streaming services prevent ai programs from accessing their platforms to train on copyrighted lyrics and melodiesjeffrey harleston universal musics general counsel expressed that an artists voice is a crucial aspect of their livelihood and public persona during last months senate hearing the us copyright office has stated that it will only grant copyright to works created by human beings not those produced by machines during warner musics earnings call on tuesday ceo robert kyncl expressed that with a proper framework artificial intelligence could allow fans to show their admiration for their favourite artists through a new level of usergenerated contentsome music industry executives have compared the emergence of aigenerated songs to the early days of youtube which google acquired during that time users would include popular songs as background music in their videos leading to copyright disputes with the music industry however after years of negotiations a system was established that generates the music industry 2 billion every year in revenue for this usergenerated content artists have been split about the ai situation drake expressed his disapproval of aigenerated music after being featured in several deep fakes stating that this is the last straw after one of the songs was released sting also weighed in saying it is a battle between human capital and aithere are instances when the vocals of artists were used in different music genres in one instance sinatras voice was used in a hiphop version of gangstas paradise while johnny cashs voice was used in a recreation of aquas barbie girl there are other songs as well that have been recreated with other artists voices using ai toolson the other hand some artists like grimes have supported the development of aigenerated music grimes has even allowed anyone to create songs using her voice without penalty as long as she receives 50 of the royalties similarly paul mccartney announced that a new beatles song