(toskanews) – It’s called Lolita Cercelshe’s Romanian, she has thousands of fans who love her songs and she doesn’t exist. This singer is completely created with artificial intelligence and its success is causing a lot of discussion in Romania.
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Not only did it arouse the wrath of real musicianswho see their creative and artistic work replaced by synthetic voices, but also that of the Roma minority, who sees in it a racist cliché in which one’s ethnicity, with a long history of discrimination, is reduced to a stereotype.
«I feel like someone stole something from me. Something that somehow concerns me,” he says Bianca Mihaisinger of Roma folk music. «They steal little fragments of our culture and they use them without permission,” he adds.
Success and copyrights
The Lolita creator, 32, has just signed a deal with a record company. He prefers not to show his face and reveal his name. “I understand that people might be scared,” he says, “but I think it can inspire people.”
The problem remains. With Lolita, 5 songs were released in less than a month, all with millions of views. A topic on which time is being spentIfpiInternational Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which asks for some precise rules to be put in place, including the prohibition on using copyrighted content without permission to train AI.
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