South Korea to bring back superstar Kim Kwang-Seok's vocal performance using AI

A South Korean national brocaster on January 25 announced that it will recreate vocals of a popular deceased South Korean superstar Kim Kwang-Seok using artificial intelligence (AI) in a television programme Competition of Century: AI vs Human. show is scheduled to air later this week. SBS will bring back late folk singer on stage artificially for his fans, following footsteps of music channel Mnet that aired show One More Time, using AI-generated voices. brocasters plan to clone Kwang-Seok's voice from real songs with syntic vocals, produced from a set of computerised algorithms. According to sources of CNN, this wouldn’t be first time that country’s music streaming services and national brocasters have turned to analytics of machine learning to bring LIVE performances from demised rockstars on a musical event. 

After nearly 25 years since his death, influential frontman of folk band Dongmulwon will be revived with expressive voice-overs that will be digitally translated to melodious songs in his AI voice clone. Earlier, famous K-Pop superstars BTS performed online using AI version of a late pioneering singer from experimental rock music, Shin Hae-Chul. rock legend’s agency also teamed up with a local film company to produce a biopic in remembrance of singer’s tumultuous life.

musical fanatics, however, raised ethical issues against South Korea’s Big Hit Entertainment's artists including BTS and TXT about resurrecting demised singers’ voices. Many in South Korean music industry objected to cloning vocal performances using artificial intelligence and hologram technology, which has also raised copyright issues. Although, AI performances have also cherished some long-standing fans willing to hear ir favourite de artists perform LIVE in deces. 

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[Street in South Korea Daegu dedicated to Kim Kwang Seok. Credit: Twitter/@lilmeowmeow_al]

[ Kim Kwang Seok street in South Korea. @lilmeowmeow_al]

Legendary rock star Kim Kwang-seok 

Aged 31, South Korean folk band artist passed away in 1996 under mysterious circumstances. His death shocked world as fans suspected homicide, even as a probe identified cause of his death as a suicide. late singer was back in helines in 2017 after death of his daughter, which was allegedly concealed by Kwang-Seok's widow for at least a dece. According to Korean Herald, South Korean police opened a probe into girl’s death from 10 years ago on a formal complaint of Kim’s elder bror Kim Kwang-bok and a local reporter, Lee Sang-ho. 

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