AI in the Music Industry – Part 18: Deep Fakes and Data Protection

We saw in part 17 of the series that voice clones such as ‘Fake Drake’ raise copyright issues, although the legal situation in the US and the EU is different. However, deep fakes go far beyond copyright and can affect a person’s privacy and therefore their general personal rights. In this part of the series on AI in the music industry, we will discuss how this can happen and why the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation is relevant in this context.