Productive AIs like ChatGPT and Midjourney and speech and discourse cloning technologies like Uberduck have ushered in a new era on the internet. Now you can sing different songs with the voice of a famous artist, It was even possible to write a song from scratch.

We’ve recently seen examples of this technology in “feat” songs like the cat song made with the voice of Eminem and fake Drake and The Weeknd. However, one person decided to take it one step further and start scamming. He also got results from this decision…

Fake Frank Ocean made thousands of dollars from ‘leaks’:

A Discord user named “mourningassasin” started selling new Frank Ocean songs for money, which he claimed were leaked. Looking at the path of the new album since 2016 Fans of Frank Ocean also fell into the trap.

The truth was revealed by the moderator of the Discord server this user shared. In a statement released by the server, the moderator stated that all songs sold were fake, and it was confirmed that the two songs titled “The Line” and “Steer It” were created with artificial intelligence.

However, this fact was learned after it was too late. Using the pronoun “we”, the user speaking to Motherboardwe managed to earn 9700 dollarshe declared.

The record company Frank Ocean is working with has not yet issued a statement.

We understand Frank Ocean’s audio cloning, so how is the music itself created?

Unfortunately, our fraudulent friend has not shared what artificial intelligence technologies he has used. However, there is a lot of artificial intelligence on the internet that creates an infrastructure for your music. Google even has artificial intelligence that turns what you typed and hummed yesterday into music. MusicLM also made available.

Of course, our scammers may have created the music infrastructure from scratch.

Examples we’ve seen in the past that have gone viral: