Artificial intelligence sabotage has hit at least two Finnish bands.
Tiktak is not the only Finnish band whose Spotify account has been hijacked. Jenni Gästgivar
Vocalist Petra Gargano40, recently announced on his Instagram account that his former band Tiktak’s Spotify account has been hijacked. The account has published several songs and album covers made with artificial intelligence.
Now the Kotiteollisuus group’s front image Jouni Hynynen confirms to Iltalehti that the band’s Spotify account has also been subject to artificial intelligence sabotage.
On Monday, an EP was released on the account, with five different versions of Kotiuiðurn Under this sky -song: piano, jazz, rock, house and trap versions. Tikta too Stop it-the same five versions of the hit were released with artificial intelligence.
In the artificial intelligence versions, at least part of the lyrics of the original song from Kotiintuisn has been preserved. The melody is also somewhat similar to the original. Male and female characters created by artificial intelligence sing on the EP.
The cover of the album has a black and white image made with artificial intelligence, where a man stands with a guitar in his hand in the middle of a storm in a mountain landscape.
On Monday, December 8, an EP album made with artificial intelligence appeared on the Spotify account of the home industry. Screenshot from Sunday, December 14th. Screenshot Spotify
The cover of the EP made with artificial intelligence features a man holding a guitar in the middle of a storm. Screenshot from Spotify
Hynynen says that he heard about it from his friends and acquaintances on Wednesday.
– The matter has been taken forward to the point that we called an acquaintance who works at Teosto. It was promised there that they would start moving the matter forward, that what the hell is this. I hear that this kind of thing happens more in the world, but in Finland it has not happened terribly, says the musician.
– Those songs were made with artificial intelligence. I have no idea who, where, how and why. I don’t really know more than that, he continues.
Hynynen says that he has never come across a similar phenomenon in the music industry. He didn’t even know something like this was ever possible.
– I don’t really know how to react to this. I have no apparent position on this matter. At first I laughed and then I didn’t dare to even listen to those songs.
According to Jouni Hynynen, AI sabotage has been reported to Teosto. Henri Kärkkäinen
In the end, Hynynen states that he approaches the situation with humor, because he “couldn’t be less interested”. At the same time, the singer feels it’s important to take this into account if the phenomenon starts to become more common in the industry.
For now, Hynynen does not know what they plan to do with Kotiindustri’s Spotify account.
– I’ve had my Instagram account hijacked sometimes, and I usually don’t react to them in any way, and then they do [kaapparit] they just usually leave, the singer says.
– Of course, it’s annoying if the band’s account starts to have such crap. I don’t really know what to do here, he states.
Sen Hynynen knows that somehow the songs made with artificial intelligence will be removed from Kotiinður’s Spotify account. The singer states that she is not going to listen to songs made with artificial intelligence.
– Maybe I should listen to them in the sense of whether they are better than our version. Then they should stay there, the musician laughs.
– Of course, we probably wouldn’t get any money from it – if we usually get money from Spotify, he concludes.
Jouni Hynynen, the frontman of the band Kotiteollisuus, at Alma-talo during filming. 5 February 2020 Elle Nurmi
The home industry band has been in operation since 1991. The band’s best-known hits include, among others I am, East of hell and Freedom leads the people.
The Tiktak girl band, on the other hand, rose to phenomenal popularity at the turn of the 2000s, but the band disbanded in 2007. In the summer of 2018, they returned to the stage for four festival gigs, and in the spring of 2019, the band held a 20th anniversary concert at Hartwall Arena. At the time of the comeback gigs, the band assured that there is no more new music coming. The gigs featured old hits, the words of which many fans still remember years later.