Celine Dion alerts followers to AI-generated songs that mimic her voice

Celine Dion is warning followers that “pretend” songs are spreading on-line that use synthetic intelligence to imitate her voice.

The Quebecois singer’s representatives have posted an announcement on her Instagram saying that songs purporting to be a replicated model of Dion are “not accredited and aren’t songs from her official discography.”

They stated the recordings have appeared on varied digital platforms.

Whereas Dion’s camp didn’t reference the songs by identify, a number of pretend recordings have lately cropped up on YouTube credited as an AI mannequin of the singer’s voice.

One is a canopy of the gospel music “Heal Me Lord,” which has amassed a couple of million views, whereas variations of a pretend Dion have been used for a number of duets, together with one among “I Will At all times Love You” with Whitney Houston and “See You Once more” with Charlie Puth.

Dion is amongst a number of Canadian performers who’ve seen their well-known voices became unauthorized AI fashions.

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The Weeknd, Alanis Morissette and Shawn Mendes all have pretend songs circulating on-line, which has led some musicians to name for authorized reforms.

Others have embraced the know-how, together with Toronto rapper Drake, who used an AI verison of deceased rapper Tupac Shakur’s voice final 12 months on one among his Kendrick Lamar diss tracks.

Dion has been battling the results of stiff particular person syndrome, a uncommon neurological dysfunction that impacts her singing voice.

Final 12 months, she made a shock look on the Olympic Video games in Paris singing Édith Piaf’s “L’Hymne à l’amour.”