BPI, the UK’s leading music industry group, views Voicify as one of the world’s largest and most egregious ‘deepfake’ AI music sites. The group is now threatening to sue the vocal cloning service if it continues to operate in its current form. While the site hasn’t commented on the allegations directly, it recently rebranded to “Jammable” citing legal troubles.
Over the past year, new artificial intelligence tools and services have been surfacing everywhere.
The same can be said for AI-related lawsuits and complaints, which have been piling up by the dozen.
In the UK, music industry group BPI has enetered the mix, targeting AI-generated voice models and cover tracks. This technology, which partly relies on copyrighted recordings, has been controversial for a while.
Voicify Faces Legal Pressure
AI vocal-cloning service Voicify was previously called out by the RIAA. In a recommendation to the U.S. Trade Representative, the recording label group asked the USTR to put the site on its list of notorious piracy sites. The USTR did not include the site in its report, however, and Voicify continued its operations as usual.
After the RIAA put a spotlight on Voicify, the BPI maintained the pressure in a letter to the site’s operators, urging them to stop all copyright-infringing activity. If not, the BPI would consider follow-up steps, implying a full-blown lawsuit.
The letter was sent privately on February 26th but aside from the legal threat, its contents remain unknown. While Voicify failed to respond appropriately according to the BPI, the service did announce a major change soon after by rebranding its website to “Jammable“.
