A musical mash up of Johnny Cash and Barbie Girl, created by YouTuber There I Ruined It, was played for Congress in a bad example of AI threats.

  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Man, i feel like getting your content brought before congress is almost as much of an achievement as getting a weird al parody

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    4 months ago

    There I Ruined It only uses AI to change his voice so it sounds like the artist he’s parodying (and a small amount of auto-tune) – 99% of the vocal performance real human singing.

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    4 months ago

    The video’s maker claims this is parody but seems more like just (at best) satire which receives less legal protections typically. It doesn’t seem that there’s any commentary on the work original IPs, given the rest of his body of work.

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      4 months ago

      It’s straight up parody. It’s a composition in the style of Johnny Cash that’s meant to be funny. That’s parody.

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        It’s a composition in the style of Johnny Cash that’s meant to be funny. That’s parody.

        That’s satire. In the US for something to be parody it has to be a commentary on the original work(s) or author(s). A parody of Johnny Cash would be something like if they used AI to copy his song note for note but had lyrics that criticized him for portraying himself as bluecollar in his music despite his wealth.

        Parody receives higher protection than satire because the parodist is actually trying to make a statement. Most “music parody” like that of Weird Al is satire, which is why Weird Al asks for permission from the original artists.