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"Welcome to the dystopian future we only dreamed about three years ago"

Deadmau5 is no stranger to a beef, having publicly feuded with everyone from Skrillex and Madonna to Kanye West and Paris Hilton.

The latest target in the mouse-headed producer and DJ's crosshairs is an unnamed DJ that allegedly used Deadmau5's AI-generated likeness to promote his music online.

Writing in an Instagram post shared yesterday, Deadmau5 called out the "idiot DJ" – whose name he chooses not to share because he doesn't "care to promote him" – before embarking on a tirade against the dangers of generative AI. Also included in the post is a convincingly authentic image of Deadmau5 that was presumably lifted from the AI-generated video.

"Woke up to some idiot DJ's Instagram story," the post reads, "that depicted me standing there promoting him and his music. Fully AI-generated, voice wasn't quite 100% but pretty damn convincing. Fucking scary as fuck. And I'm sure this is just the beginning for talentless fucks to abuse this tech to further themselves while violating others rights in one of the worst ways possible."

"I'm sure we're all going to be seeing much more of this. AI is fucking great, generative AI not so much; but we need to stop idiots like this from abusing it."

Original article:
https://www.musicradar.com/music-te...ng-his-ai-generated-deepfake-to-promote-music

 

The AI age of counterfeits has begun. Even more fraud and even more lies.

 

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I think that the fact that governments and institutions aren't making NOTHING about it is the scariest part about this

 

Told my lil old mum to only believe or post videos made before 2023. Calmed her down about AI on you tube :D

 

We must stop relying on governments and institutions to regulate our lives, promoting or prohibiting what we can do, read, see, or hear.

My life belongs to me, and I will not let anyone dictate what I should do with it, or where and when I should do it.

No woman, however beautiful and desirable she was, has managed to do so thus far, so it certainly won't be a bunch of incompetent and useless officials who will succeed in subjugating me.

Coming back to the question of generative AI, it will be like all snake oils: idiots will get fooled, and the smart ones will make profit from it.

End of story.

 

Can You Spot the Fake? AI Video vs. Real Life Challenge!

 

in the U.S. we have "Right of Publicity", which you can legally use in situations like this

 

I'm more worried that regular Tom and Jerry are picking photos of their daughters girl friends and making porn with them on Grok in two clicks cause FREEDOM OF SPEEEECH and DON'T THREAD ON ME bullshit. That's way more scary.

DeadMau5 have lawers, cash and a big speaker to fend for himself.

 

The technology is relatively new, and the legislature first needs to react and create new laws:

Musk's AI "Grok"Justice Minister wants to toughen penalties for sexualized AI deepfakes - January 17, 2026

"Put a bikini on her" – anyone using the messaging service X has likely encountered this phrase in recent weeks. Users have been writing it to prompt the platform's AI function, "Grok," to do exactly that to people in photos. Most often, the victims are women who are digitally undressed. The phenomenon has reached such proportions that Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig wants to tighten criminal law. Experts welcome the initiative.

• The AI "Grok" allowed users to create sexualized deepfakes. The function has since been deactivated, but the damage to those affected has been done .
• Taking legal action against such fakes is difficult .
• The Justice Minister now wants to tighten the law to provide better protection for victims. An amendment to criminal law had been agreed upon in the coalition agreement .

The fact that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to alter images is nothing new. The possibilities are virtually limitless. This is called deepfakes , when photos are manipulated to look deceptively real. On the platform X, formerly Twitter, users also used the AI "Grok" to create suggestive photos of people, primarily women, but also children.

Source: www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/politik/grok-musk-ki-deepfake-gesetz-verbot-100.html

 

rarely agree with deadmau, here i do.

 

might go get a dedmaus endorsement before its outlawed then go and play pre recorded set just like my new mentor
he did a level on sound shapes you know

 

Even without AI, it already happened several times.

Giacomo Turra stole other guitarists tracks, generated MIDI from them to recreate the sound with guitar simulator plugins.
And faked playing them in his videos.

He done this for years, got caught ... and still do it anyway !
He even got a signature guitar ... really ...

Of course, it is going to be worse/easier with AI.

This clown world is a fukin joke.

 

so you are deadmouse fan

name one song

 

He may not like it, but this is not a very scary example of it. Worst thing that happens is what, someone downloads a mix or buys some music?
This is free publicity for him.

Last year in October there was a major hurricane that hit Jamaica and Cuba, etc. And there were deepfake videos being posted of a natural disaster like that, which could get people killed. Big difference. Think about much bigger subjects where AI deepfake videos could be deployed like elections, wars, propoganda, evidence in criminal trials.

 

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