AI-Generated Music Floods Folk Artist's Spotify Profile as She Battles Copyright Troll

Folk musician Murphy Campbell is finding herself at the center of a controversy surrounding AI-generated music and a broken copyright system. Recently, she discovered several songs on her Spotify profile that were not hers, but instead appeared to be AI-created covers of her own recordings. Campbell suspected that someone had taken her previously posted videos on YouTube, used AI algorithms to generate new vocal performances, and then uploaded the resulting tracks to streaming platforms under her name. To verify her suspicions, she ran one of the songs through two different AI detectors, which both confirmed that it was likely generated by artificial intelligence. The incident has left Campbell feeling bewildered and frustrated, as she questions the effectiveness of copyright laws in protecting artists’ work from AI-generated forgeries. With the rapid advancement of AI technology, Campbell worries that the music industry’s ability to police copyright infringement is no longer keeping pace with these new developments.