In late April, audio clips surfaced that appeared to capture JAY-Z rapping several unexpected texts. Did you ever imagine you’d hear JAY-Z do Shakespeare’s “To Be, Or Not to Be” soliloquy from Hamlet? How about Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” or a decade-old 4chan meme? All of these unlikely recitations were, of course, fake: “entirely computer-generated using a text-to-speech model trained on the speech patterns of JAY-Z,” according to a YouTube description. More specifically, they were deepfakes…
88GLAM are back with New Mania, a surprise mixtape featuring 18 songs and some wrestling-themed artwork. The Undertaker-worthy sneak return (Bah gawd, that’s 88GLAM’s music!) comes with…
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