AI "Sun Yanzi" is on fire! Expert: Stefanie Sun's voice is not protected by law

"AI Stefanie Sun" became popular all over the Internet overnight.

On Station B, AI Stefanie Sun's renditions of Lin Junjie's "She Said", Jay Chou's "Love in BC", Zhao Lei's "Chengdu" and so on made many netizens fall into a deep trap. Netizens said that after listening to AI Stefanie Sun all night, they couldn't get out. Some netizens even announced that "this is the hottest voice in 2023".

These cover works are based on an open source project called so-vits-svc. With only a few pieces of audio, a generative model can be used to synthesize the audio of the target tone and train the acoustic model that the user wants. This model can preserve pitch and pitch, and can also be sung in a different language.

In addition to AI Stefanie Sun, there are also AI Jay Chou, AI Wang Xinling, AI Beatles, and AI Drake on the Internet. Netizens enjoy it, but the music circle is worried. An industry insider engaged in copyright work told Xinguan that this is suspected of infringement; big companies such as Universal Music have put pressure on the platform to remove AI-cloned songs; Drake dropped a harsh sentence: "the last straw".

Some netizens will ask, is AI Stefanie Sun suspected of infringement? Experts pointed out that in practice, AI training uses a lot of material, and this issue should be looked at independently—it depends on whether the source of the material itself is legal or illegal. If the material itself is illegal, then there is a problem of copyright infringement, there is no doubt about it.

But in fact, the material may be legal. I bought all Stefanie Sun's songs as genuine CDs and fed them to AI to summarize its timbre. Does the behavior of AI using Stefanie Sun's recording products for training constitute infringement? Under the copyright law of our country, this kind of situation does not constitute infringement in principle, and should generally be classified as normal use.

From a certain point of view, the "invasion" of AI music can be seen as a continuation of music copyright issues in the "background of the Internet age". The copyright issues of streaming media, live broadcast and short videos have yet to be resolved. rise.