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    Dead Beatles, Fake Drake and robot songwriters: Inside the panic over AI music

    LOS ANGELES — Inside the Mayk.It app, I don’t have to work hard to sound nearly perfect. Mayk.It is an AI-powered music startup, funded with an initial $4 million investment from major venture capital firms like Greycroft, former Spotify executive Sophia Bendz and celebrities like YouTuber MrBeast and voice-tweaking enthusiast T-Pain. The Santa Monica-based company hopes to do for singing and ...
    by August Brown, Los Angeles Times Jul 13, 2023 7 minutes
    AI is already present in many of the ways we interface with music, from recommendation algorithms to production tools like voice modulators.

    LOS ANGELES — Inside the Mayk.It app, I don’t have to work hard to sound nearly perfect.

    Mayk.It is an AI-powered music startup, funded with an initial $4 million investment from major venture capital firms like Greycroft, former Spotify executive Sophia Bendz and celebrities like YouTuber MrBeast and voice-tweaking enthusiast T-Pain. The Santa Monica-based company hopes to do for singing and production what Instagram did for photography and TikTok for video editing — make it uncannily easy to express yourself at a semiprofessional level on social media.

    Artificial intelligence is the talk of governments and industry today. In the arts, screenwriters, illustrators and musicians are nervously eyeing the tech’s potential and the possibility of being outmatched (and laid off) in favor of such software.

    On the roof deck of Mayk.It’s office, co-founder Stefán Heinrich Henriquez played a video from a forthcoming version of its app, Covers.ai. The clip showed him capably singing Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off,” only he’d barely hit a note. He’d created an AI model of his voice, and the app rendered a video of him performing it. It could have made him sing anything, or with the app’s built-in voice models, sing as anyone else.

    “During my time at TikTok, I saw a

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