An pseudonymous music creator named 'Voice Synthesis' used AI to generate deepfaked tracks of rapper Jay-Z's reciting  Shakepeare's 'To be, or not to be' and Billy Joel's Don't Start the Fire. 

Voice Synthesis’ videos created the deepfake videos by feeding Google’s Tacotron 2 text-to-speech model with Jay-Z's songs and lyrics, and having the synthetic voice read pre-written text. Other videos created by Voice Synthesis include Tucker Carlson reading the Unabomber Manifesto and Bill Clinton reciting 'Baby Got Back'.

Jay-Z's agency entertainment Roc Nation LLC claimed copyright infringment and argued 'This content unlawfully uses an AI to impersonate our client’s voice.' YouTube took down the videos, but later reinstated them on the basis that the DCMA request was 'incomplete'. 

The videos remained on decentralised, open source platform LBRY.

Input noted that Voice Synthesis 'transformed Jay-Z’s discography in a humorous way for no commercial benefit and clearly labels all videos as speech synthesis'.