When she looked herself, it turned out that an album with the title "Orca" had been published in her name on Spotify, iTunes and other platforms where her music is available.
It was music that was obviously AI-generated, but it had been smartly trained, I believe in myself!, notes Portman.
A few days later, another album arrived, of lower quality – pure nonsense, according to Emily Portman who has not managed to track down who is behind it.
It's very unpleasant, she says to BBC and describes the feeling as the beginning of something dystopian.
Spotify claims that the music belonged to another artist with the same name, which Emily Portman strongly questions.
AI-generated music is often published in fictional artists' names, but giving existing musicians AI-made albums is a growing trend, according to BBC. Most often, it is smaller independent musicians who get the AI albums attributed to them, and the one who posts them also gets any potential revenue. In the case of "Orca", however, none of the songs got more than 2,000 streams.
