An AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd collaboration is going viral just days after the Canadian rapper slammed the fast-growing technology | CPT PPP Coverage

The track, called “Heart on My Sleeve,” was “created with nothing but the use of AI programming,” according to TMZ.

It has been viewed over 4.8 million times on Twitter.

—Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) April 16, 2023

Mitchell Cohen of App Sumo suggested in a Twitter thread that the AI track was created by a software startup as a marketing ploy.

Cohen traced the origins of the track to a TikTok account with the handle @ghostwriter977.

While Cohen did not name Laylo in his tweets, the company itself retweeted his thread.

Laylo did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

—Mitchell Cohen (@MitchellLandon) April 16, 2023

On Friday, Drake spoke out after an AI-generated cover of him rapping Ice Spice’s breakthrough song, “Munch,” went viral.

In the song, Drake’s AI-generated voice raps: “Bitches ain’t bad, let’s keep it a bean / Know they be mad that I be on the scene / Ass too fat, can’t fit in no jeans / You was my stitch, but it’s not what it seams.” 

Drake shared a clip on the cover on his Instagram story and wrote: “This is the final straw AI.”

—Pop Tingz (@ThePopTingz) April 14, 2023

In response to an AI Rihanna cover of Beyoncé’s “Cuff It” that also went viral last week, Alexander Ross, a music and copyright lawyer, told Insider that the makers of AI covers could be breaking the law.

“If you’re creating a recording with the intention of misleading people into thinking it’s the real thing — that it is Rihanna, for example, then that’s called a passing-off claim, you’re passing-off that as the original,” he said.

“If they have pinched the instrumental, or part of, from the original Beyoncé recording, that’s copyright infringement in a number of ways,” he added.

“You’ve stolen part of the recording and you’ve distributed it, communicated it with the public. There are all sorts of grounds for infringement proceedings there.”