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With only a couple of minutes and access to YouTube, you can now make SpongeBob SquarePants sing your favorite Taylor Swift song. Or make Taylor Swift sing your favorite Drake song. Or make Drake sing your song. AI covers and AI-generated originals are suddenly everywhere on the internet, to the point where even diehard fans don’t know what’s a real leak and what’s a generated one. It’s a complicated ethical and legal mess and makes being a music fan weirder than ever.
That’s only the very beginning ...
