AI-Generated Kanye West Verse Goes Viral

A viral video of Kanye West demonstrating the capability of AI to simulate any musician’s voice on any music track has stirred excitement among fans, who claim this technology can take the music industry to a whole new era.

This viral video which features an AI-generated clip of Kanye’s verse, was by Roberto Nickson—an AI expert, who claims it wasn’t challenging to create.

In the video, Nickson explains that one can quickly generate convincing verses by recording reference vocals and replacing them with a trained model of any preferred musician.

“I came across a beat with Kanye’s instrumental style on youtube. I immediately downloaded it and wrote bars of lyrics on it.” Nickson said, “I plan to substitute my vocal contribution with an AI-generated Kanye West replica.” 

After playing my verse on the video, you could see from the comments and reviews that some people struggled to believe it wasn’t Kanye West singing.

And just like that. The music industry is forever changed.

I recorded a verse, and had a trained AI model of Kanye replace my vocals.

The results will blow your mind. Utterly incredible. pic.twitter.com/wY1pn9RGWx

— Roberto Nickson (@rpnickson) March 26, 2023

Nickson also said, “crazy, right? and this isn’t even the best of AI yet. In a few years, we would have AI models for all popular musicians in the industry.”

AI and the Future of Music

“In a couple of years, you would be streaming songs from your favorite musicians and won’t be able to tell if it was actually them.’

He continued, “This could affect the music industry in various ways, but we do hope it does not result in having to put down AI.”

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When this post was created, the viral video had already been viewed 2 million times. There are comments from several people expressing their excitement and predictions of what AI could do to the music industry.

A third viewer described the demonstration as “absolutely astonishing.” A fourth viewer praised the creator’s work, stating that the bars in the demo were “fire.” The viewer also said that hearing the technology in action was “mind-blowing.”

Nickson’s lyrics referenced West’s controversial remarks about the Jewish community. It also had some lines with AI Kanye acknowledging his own ignorance and regret of attacking a whole religion. 

He expressed remorse for his actions, recognizing that they were misguided and offensive. Despite losing his partnership with Adidas due to the controversy, he still identifies as Yeezy.