On Thursday, Billie Eilish brightened the day of around 111 million of her Instagram followers by adding them to her Close Friends group.
Instagram users have the option of sharing content to their Stories with either all users or just those in their Close Friends list.
Billie, who had previously criticized musicians for “wasteful releases,” shocked millions of followers when she revealed their status as Close Friends in a Story she shared.
The performer of “What Was I Made For” posted a low-resolution image of a starry sky with a hand.
Billie quickly became a trending topic on Twitter as fans expressed their joy at being friends with the Ocean Eyes singer—on Instagram, at least.
Mom: “Why is Billie Eilish at your wedding?” Billie said, “That’s my bestie,” in response to a fan who uploaded a screenshot of her Instagram Story.
Another admirer posted a picture of Cillian Murphy with his Oscar and said, “How I feel after seeing myself in Billie Eilish’s Instagram close friends.”
‘Me and Billie Eilish after she added me to her close friends.’ Another one of Billie’s close pals uploaded a photo of a woman dining with a cardboard copy of a human.
More than 200 artists, including the Bad Guy singer, demanded on Wednesday that the music industry put an end to the “predatory” use of AI.
If not addressed, the technology “will set in motion a race to the bottom,” according to an open letter signed by some of the most famous people in the world.
Artificial intelligence (AI) that steals musicians’ voices, likenesses, and sounds will “destroy the music ecosystem,” they claimed, calling it a “assault on human creativity.”
The Artists Rights Alliance (ARA) has issued a letter demanding the prohibition of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that compete with or displace human songwriters.
This is a part of a larger effort by businesses to improve oversight of generative AI, the technology underlying ChatGPT and Midjourney, two popular chatbots and picture generators.
Among the artists that lent their signatures to the letter are Katy Perry, Jon Bon Jovi, Nicki Minaj, Stevie Wonder, REM, Zayn Malik, and Miranda Lambert.
A song that used AI to imitate the vocals of Drake and The Weeknd went viral online, adding fuel to the fire of concerns over AI’s use in recent months.
Unchecked AI development could “infringe upon our rights and devalue the rights of human artists,” the letter says.
This attack on human imagination has to end. In order to prevent the predatory use of AI to ruin the music ecosystem, steal the voices and likenesses of professional artists, and breach creators’ rights, we must take action, the letter states.