brad stone, senior executive editor of global technology fo bloomberg. what s your reaction to this song is this what we should expect? stephanie, i have to say th song is good it really does sound like drak and the weekend. i want to offer a conspiracy theory here but i don t thin we can totally dismiss the possibility that this is a marketing stunt and that it real i mean these artists are ver clever again about getting attention. and they could put out a bit o an ambiguous statement either way the larger point is that it s remarkable how goo this a i vocal switching o mimicking technology has become, and we are entering into an er where you can feed samples of singer or a voice actor, a comedian, or, heaven forbid, a cable news host, into thes a.i. tools and it can replicat the voice, the vocal signature and make the person sing songs or say things that they did no otherwise say unreliable so with a huge opportunity for
we are talking about a i the future of a i sends a whol lot like drake and the weeknd. that song you just heard was not created by them. it was created by artificial intelligence and fake drake, as it s no called, racked up millions o views, despite not being written or performed by either of those artists themselves. it arrives amid growing call for regulation of a. i., wit the ftc announcing later today it will target companies tha misuse a.i. twilight law against discrimination o deception. with us for more, my old friend, brad stone, senior executive editor of global technology fo bloomberg. brad, what s your reaction t this song? is this what we should expect? stephanie, i have to say th song is good it really does sound like drak and the weeknd i don t want to offer conspiracy theory here but i don t think we can totally dismiss the possibility that this is a marketing stunt an that it s real i mean these artists are ver clever again about getting attention.
consequences and the next step that were being sought b president trump and some of hi allies there is a plan that they ar trying to impose here which is to weaken the power of the federal government and we this country that is i think we have to be paying attention to that more then we are paying attention to th stunts of donald trump we know that donald trump is going to pull stunts like th song he made with former inmates, but are we really thinking about how we re talking to the people abou this on the ground ,, ahead, the united states shoul be setting an example for th world on gender pay th quality. but sadly, we re not that is next honey. yeah. i respect that.
and just be mickie james. you don t want to sound like anybody else or be really compared to anybody else. it is an honor, but you want to create your own path and your own sound. and i understand you wrote your first song if five minutes, is that true? i wrote a couple songs. the one that broke me down on this whole pathway is i was i live in the country. so it is 20 minutes from everything. so i am driving to the jim one day and to the jim one day and i had a song in my head and i wrote know that i am pretending. it was like sar. ka. and then i went to nashville and literally wrote it down. i have to do this. this is like the fifth or 6th song. this is a song. it would be a waste of talent to not follow through. i went to nashville and