Czech ice dancers Kate\u0159ina Mr\u00e1zkov\u00e1 and Daniel Mr\u00e1zek made their Olympic debut on Monday, an unfathomable feat that takes a lifetime of dedication and practice. But the sibling duo used AI music in their rhythm dance program, which doesn\u2019t break any official rules, but serves as a depressing symbol of how absolutely cooked we are.<\/p>\n
As Mr\u00e1zek spun his sister in a crazy cartwheel-lift-sort-of-move that made them look superhuman, one of the NBC commentators mentioned in passing, \u201cThis is AI generated, this first part,\u201d referring to the music. Somehow, that admission is even more baffling than the gravity-defying tricks that the siblings showed off on the pressure of Olympic ice.<\/p>\n
The Olympic ice dance competition is split into two events: the rhythm dance, where pairs must perform a routine that meets a specific theme, and the free dance. This season\u2019s theme is \u201cThe Music, Dance Styles, and Feeling of the 1990s.\u201d British ice dancing duo Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson paid tribute to the Spice Girls, while United States favorites Madison Chock and Evan Bates skated to a Lenny Kravitz medley.<\/p>\n
But, for whatever reason \u2014 licensing issues? \u2014 Mr\u00e1zkov\u00e1 and Mr\u00e1zek danced to a routine with music that\u2019s half AC\/DC and half AI. It\u2019s weird. What\u2019s even weirder is that this isn\u2019t the duo\u2019s first use of AI, nor is it the first time that this choice backfired.<\/p>\n
Per the International Skating Union, the governing body that oversees competitive ice skating, the duo\u2019s music choice<\/a> for the rhythm dance this season has been \u201cOne Two by AI (of 90s style Bon Jovi)\u201d and \u201cThunderstruck by AC\/DC.\u201d The official Olympics website confirms<\/a> that the duo is using the AI-generated song for the rhythm dance portion.<\/p>\n The Czech siblings have faced backlash before for using AI-generated music. Earlier in the season, they played a \u201990s-inspired song for their routine that began with<\/a> a wailing declaration: \u201cEvery night we smash a Mercedes-Benz!\u201d If that sounds familiar, it\u2019s because that lyric comes directly from the \u201990s hit \u201cYou Get What You Give\u201d by New Radicals (which, by the way, has an incredible music video<\/a> shot in a Staten Island mall \u2014 the true essence of American suburbia!).<\/p>\n The AI-generated lyrics also include the lines, \u201cWake up, kids\/We got the dreamer\u2019s disease,\u201d and \u201cFirst we run, and then we laugh \u2019til we cry.\u201d What a coincidence! Those lyrics also appear in the song \u201cYou Get What You Give\u201d by New Radicals. The AI song is even titled \u201cOne Two,\u201d which are the first words of\u2026 you can probably guess which song at this point.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBoston, MA Before the Olympics, the duo changed the song, swapping out the New Radicals lyrics for other AI-generated lyrics<\/a> that sound suspiciously like Bon Jovi lyrics, as journalist Shana Bartels noted in November<\/a>. For example, \u201craise your hands, set the night on fire\u201d also appear in \u201cRaise Your Hands<\/a>\u201d by Bon Jovi\u2026 and the AI \u201cvocalist\u201d sounds a lot like Bon Jovi, too. (Not to pour salt on the wound, but \u201cRaise Your Hands\u201d isn\u2019t even from the \u201990s!) This was the music that the duo danced to on Monday at the Olympics, before it transitioned into \u201cThunderstruck\u201d by AC\/DC, a real song from the \u201990s written by real people.<\/p>\n While it\u2019s unclear what software the team used to generate this music, this is an LLM operating as it\u2019s supposed to. These LLMs are trained on large libraries of music, often through legally dubious<\/a> means. When prompted, LLMs produce the most statistically probable response to an input. That\u2019s useful when writing code, but means a song \u201cin the style of Bon Jovi,\u201d will likely end up using some actual Bon Jovi lyrics.<\/p>\n And yet, the music industry seems at least temporarily enamored with the idea of \u201cmusicians\u201d who aren\u2019t totally real. Telisha Jones, a 31-year-old in Mississippi, used Suno to set her (hopefully real) poetry to music under the persona Xania Monet. Now she has a $3 million record deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a shame that these Czech dancers\u2019 accomplishment of skating at the Olympics may be marred by discourse around their use of AI music (discourse that I am actively contributing to). But come on! 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