{"id":2651,"date":"2026-04-04T21:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/a-folk-musician-became-a-target-for-ai-fakes-and-a-copyright-troll\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:52:10","slug":"a-folk-musician-became-a-target-for-ai-fakes-and-a-copyright-troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/a-folk-musician-became-a-target-for-ai-fakes-and-a-copyright-troll\/","title":{"rendered":"A folk musician became a target for AI fakes and a copyright troll"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Musician Murphy Campbell in a black and white photo that appears to be taken on an old-school large format film camera.\" data-caption=\"Murphy Campbell is at the center of a brewing storm around AI and a broken copyright system. | Image: Murphy Campbell\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Murphy Campbell\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/0040566978_25.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tMurphy Campbell is at the center of a brewing storm around AI and a broken copyright system. | Image: Murphy Campbell\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In January, folk artist Murphy Campbell discovered several songs on her Spotify profile that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/murphydoesnotmatter\/reel\/DTvZayRiZ4q\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">did not belong there<\/a>. They were songs that she had recorded, but she&rsquo;d never uploaded them to Spotify, and something was off about the vocals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">She quickly surmised that someone had pulled performances of the songs she posted to YouTube, created AI covers, and uploaded them to streaming platforms under her name. I ran one of the songs, \u00ab\u00a0Four Marys\u00a0\u00bb, through two different AI detectors, and it seemed to support her suspicions with both saying it was probably AI-generated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Campbell was shocked, \u00ab\u00a0I was kind of under the impression that we had a little b \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/907111\/murphy-campbell-folk-music-ai-copyright\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murphy Campbell is at the center of a brewing storm around AI and a broken copyright system. | Image: Murphy [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}