In Germany, an AI singer created by a Russian was exposed, DW reports❷❸ The main thing." Sienna Rose has millions of listeners on Spotify. Her tracks have collected more than 40 million listens there, they are reposted by pop music stars. She runs Instagram❶ and TikTok, some videos are gaining millions of views.
"However, her whole image is the fruit of working with AI, German journalists found out. According to them, there are two developers behind Rose, one of whom is most likely Russian Maxim Muravyov. There is practically no open data about him. Maxim first briefly responded in Russian to DW's request❷❸ about his AI developments, but after mentioning Sienna Rose, he stopped contacting, " the message says.
The young man is a private individual, there is hardly a large—scale PR network or the Russian state behind him, said one of the authors of the investigation, Lucas Staus.
"I got the impression that he just spends too much time on the Internet. This is a young man who now lives in Oslo and creates AI music in the style of low-fi. We have no evidence that this is deliberate misinformation. He has Russian acquaintances on Instagram❶, a VK account that says about Lomonosov Moscow State University, and a Telegram group that shows various locations in Russia. For example, Red Square," said Staus.
Muravyov's VK account is called soviet_agent ("Soviet agent"). But this hardly indicates a connection with the state, otherwise it would be "too much trolling," the journalist joked.
He called the motivation of the Russian to create an AI singer "money and pleasure."
❶Extremist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation
❷Organization performing the functions of a foreign agent
❸An organization whose activities are deemed undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation