Tag: Japanese popular culture
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Voice Cloning AI and OpenAI Jukebox
It seems like those spooky AI images and sharpening now we are on the brink of AI voice and music generation – i.e. feeding in acapellas or instrumentals and the neural network generates new versions – with all the legal headaches that suggest. Is it owned by the computer or the original source artist? What…
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The rise of the holographic pop star
Twitter, blogosphere and the press is buzzing about 2Pac rising from the dead as a hologram at Coachella, but it’s not a new phenomenon. In Japan they have totally virtual stars now touring as holograms – here’s Hatsune Miku in 2010 performing in front of a massive crowd. She’ll never stop being 16, she’ll never…