BTS’s Jungkook Shares His Take On AI Vocal Covers
Over the last few months, the topic of generating song covers through AI has become a hot debate in the BTS fandom.
Social media accounts, solely dedicated to creating and posting AI-generated song covers in the voice of the BTS members, have increased rampantly. But ARMYs are not on board with the idea for the most part. The ones supporting these covers argue that they have become relatively common, and fans of other artists do it too. On the other hand, those opposing these covers feel that not only it infringes upon the artists’ intellectual property, but by feeding their voices into an AI program, fans are inevitably contributing towards future situations where these tools can be used for malicious purposes.
Potentially future problems is trolls/antis using these programs to make the members say things they've never said to cause confusion and harm in the community. Right now, there is not enough power in laws to prevent and have consequences for these cybercrimes.
— C⁷even¹⁰ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@thebtsgen) July 16, 2023
I’ve already seen people on tiktok feeding Joon’s voice to a voice Ai to make one of him reciting the lyrics of The boy’s a liar pt 2, which is sort of cute as an isolated thing, but what else would jobless people do with joon’s voice 🫤
— ˗ ˏˋgaby ˎˊ ⁷ ᵇʸ ʲᵏ 🍊🐱🥢 (@demonswilldrown) March 5, 2023
Though the BTS members have not addressed this issue in an interview or a livestream, many ARMYs took RM‘s lyrics in “All Day ft. Tablo” as a hint of where he and BTS might stand morally on this issue.
“fuck the artificial intelligence (AI), fuck the algorithm” – all day, namjoon, 2022 https://t.co/OixuhQ6TuT
— bee⁷ 🧸 (@triviaindigo) July 16, 2023
But now ARMYs have a definitive stance on this issue from Jungkook, who talked about AI song covers during his recent Weverse livestream on July 27, KST.
Jungkook is live on Weverse!https://t.co/hzx3fUsI2n pic.twitter.com/8fuw2qkqMQ
— BTS Charts & Translations (@charts_k) July 26, 2023
The BTS maknae stumbled across some AI-generated song covers on YouTube during the broadcast and expressed his surprise at the sheer volume of such content on the internet. He said that he also checked out the process of making these AI covers and was fascinated by how easy it was.
🐰why are there so many ai covers these days? i was curious so i searched it up and it's so easy. it's interesting. oh ai jimin? i heard v hyung's ai too.@BTS_twt
— haruharu💜 (slow) (@haruharu_w_bts) July 26, 2023
🐰 why are there so many AI covers these days?
🐰 it's fascinating cause the quality was good
🐰 there's so many AI covers…
🐰 in future the AI would be singing huh?— Sel⁷ (@BTStranslation_) July 26, 2023
Jungkook then said that soon enough, people might be able to create songs in a particular artist’s voice through AI programs if they keep feeding data into it at this rate. Though he was optimistic about AI’s ability to independently make songs in the near future, he also added that it will still lack the “sincerity” of human vocals.
🐰 AIs could really sing songs.
🐰 But then you lose sincerity. So you have to record.— christa⁷ 💜 SEVEN (@ryuminating) July 26, 2023
🐰 i think it's possible to make songs with AI with pronunciation and song data, etc
🐰 these are things that haven't even been recorded right?
🐰 there's no sincerity (in AI singing) tsk tsk— Sel⁷ (@BTStranslation_) July 26, 2023
While wondering if he could create music with the help of AI if his voice ever gave up, Jungkook came to the strict conclusion that in that situation, it would be better for him to leave the profession altogether.
🐰 Ah with this (AI), you won't even have to record any…
🐰 I mean, imagine one day if my voice is completely gone? Then-
🐰 Ah then I should probably try doing something else (other than singing), cause there won't be sincerity in it (if it's done using AI)— 💙 ᴮᴱ바다⁷ 💐 (SLOW) 💙 (@eternalhyyh) July 26, 2023
🐰 If I lose my voice.
🐰 Then I…
🐰 Well then, I'll have to do some other work.
🐰 I can't sing. There's no sincerity.— christa⁷ 💜 SEVEN (@ryuminating) July 26, 2023
ARMYs are taking this as a definitive sign of which side of this controversial issue BTS stands on.
He said in no way, he is gonna go along with AI singing. If one day he loses his voice, he will simply do some other work rather than doing it without sincerity!! That's an artist, that's BTS 💜
This is to all of you who support those AI covers! https://t.co/uzMVHiZ5Mm
— Jeb⁷ #SevenbyJK 아포방포🫂💜 (@jebhyyh) July 26, 2023
jungkook after them AI covers play pic.twitter.com/ZWDWsKAcFV
— kenmin🎰 (@doctorkoobert) July 26, 2023
YALL HEARD JUNGKOOK? STOP YALL FUCKING SHITTY CREEPY AI COVERS, CANT YALL STICK ON THE MUSIC THEY ALREADY DROPPED????? NOBODY WANNA HEAR JUNGKOOK SING 7 RINGS
— elo⁷ SEVEN (@btsbIueprint_) July 26, 2023
