On a quick weekend trip to LA, had dinner last night with friends and friends of friends.
One is a successful independent music producer (works on live shows, broadcast TV and Broadway, and produces music for some big artists).
He told me about the very first completely AI generated singer/performer that was created and just introduced by a major producer that is involved in the success of a lot of current artists.
I’m linking a news article below with the details. Very interesting development.
Side note: I didn’t really hear the name of the producer and the virtual artist very well in our conversation, and since music production / LA scene is not my expertise, I turned to AI to figure out who this was.
A conversation with ChatGPT yielded big name labels and producers but came up empty.
I switched ChatGPT into deep research mode (I have a paid account), and gave it more details (the company name might start with “tele”, the AI persona has a mixed ethnic demographic, etc.) and after about 5 minutes ChatGPT came back with a detailed report including multiple reference links to news articles etc. including the one below: