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At first glance, this seemed fairly normal. Rap songs leak all the time, after all. But this time, something was different. These songs weren’t entirely human: They were created with the help of artificial intelligence. Fans had taken low-quality snippets they found on the internet and used AI technology to turn them into full songs with much higher audio quality.

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According to Sable, his intentions are straightforward. “We just want to hear these songs in full,” he says. “This is a fun project. We’re not trying to make any money off of it. We literally just want to make these and share them with the world.” Another AI creator named Shadow AI Remasters echoes, “I mainly enjoy using this AI purely because of the fact I can create higher quality versions of these songs that I’ve wanted to hear for a long time, and allow others to hear them, at least until the actual song is made available.”

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“For the most part, we’ve been just re-creating what has already been made, but for ‘Drive Me Crazy,’ we wrote a second verse for it,” Sable says. “And for ‘No Jumper,’ there was the intro and we added a few bars. For ‘Sippin’ Red,’ we completely finished that song. We just have our cover artists kind of freestyle over it. That’s how Juice did it in the sessions. So to try and keep it authentic, we’re trying to freestyle it, too, and usually it turns out pretty good.”

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Of course, there are also ethical concerns about using AI technology to create new Juice WRLD verses that he didn’t actually write while he was alive—a fact that Sable wrestles with. “With the whole adding verses and stuff, I can see how people don’t like that,” he says, before repeating that he views this as a “fun fan project” and arguing that his team avoids any lyrical topics that Juice WRLD didn’t actually rap about. Then he adds, “I​​f we do end up getting any monetization from this, we’re going to try to donate at least a portion of it to the Live Free 999 charity that Juice’s mom started.”

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