{"id":329344,"date":"2025-12-22T06:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/329344\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:38:08","slug":"milton-keynes-band-torus-says-ai-stole-their-billie-eilish-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/329344\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton Keynes band Torus says AI stole their Billie Eilish cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Independent Lemon version began with what sounded like a clip of Torus performing the song, but it continues for a few more minutes longer, the band claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Singer and guitarist Alfie Glass said: &#8220;I thought it was somebody doing a cover of our cover, like a real person doing it, and I thought they actually did a pretty good job, but obviously they were like American or something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drummer Jack Orr said: &#8220;It was just before we dropped it, I remember seeing the AI version on Spotify, my sister showed me, and it was weird.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It took me a minute to realise that came from our initial clip, someone had just taken that clip and  looped it a few times, but then I think AI had done something to it to &#8211; it added a riff or something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The account has nearly 700,000 monthly listeners and has uploaded about 100 singles over the last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many of these are covers, and some have earned millions of streams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were versions of Michael Jackson, Lorde and the Macarena &#8211; sometimes done in a different genre, sometimes sped up or slowed down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Independent Lemon version began with what sounded like a clip of Torus performing the song, but it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-329344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}