Snoop Dogg has spotted an AI Michael Jackson doing a cover of C-Murder’s hit song “Down 4 My N’s,” and he’s not a fan of what he’s hearing.
The latest bizarre AI mashup was shared by Snoop on his Instagram, which finds augmented and choppy MJ vocals rapping through C-Murder’s 1999 hit which featured Magic and The Dogg Father.
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“This shit is outta hand,” Snoop exclaimed in the post, adding in the caption, “Wow.”
Snoop is far from the only rapper to express concern with AI’s recent developments. In March, an AI-generated JAY-Z verse went viral and in turn sparked concern from Young Guru, 9th Wonder and DJ Clark Kent, with Guru calling for government intervention.
Hov’s esteemed engineer shared the digitally-generated vocals on his own Instagram page, which sound almost indistinguishable to the Roc Nation mogul. That was enough for Guru to sound the alarm bells for where AI is heading.
“I’ve been trying to tell everyone that this is where we are now with AI. For some reason this one got everyone’s attention. So what do we do. On one hand I’m well aware that you can’t stop technology. Once the genie is out of the box you can put him back in,” Guru wrote.
“On the other hand we have to protect the rights of the artist. Not only artist but everyone in society. People should not be able to take your Name, Image and Likeness without permission. We have to add the voice to this law.
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He continued: “We have to learn from past mistakes. You would be a fool to chase every person that is going to do this. We learned that lesson with Napster. The only way I see to deal with it is to change the law. There are so many different opinions. We could change the United States law tomorrow but the internet is world wide. What a time we live in!!”
9th Wonder and DJ Clark Kent echoed Guru’s sentiment in the comments section, with the former commenting: “My God” and the latter writing: “This is terrible.”
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Hi-Tek, Peter Gunz, Mysonne, Peter Rosenberg and others also expressed discomfort at the idea of AI technology cloning rappers’ voices.
In other Snoop Dogg news, he, Lil Kim, and Yasiin Bey are a few of the Hip Hop artists that Audible announced will be asked to create their own series in honor of rap’s 50th anniversary.
The West Coast legend will kick off the series on June 15 with Words + Music, where the rapper will discuss his journey from Long Beach to the rest of the world.
