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Aligning thousands of Billie Eilish covers in an infinite music video experiment

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Google Creative Lab and YouTube collaborated to create "Infinite Bad Guy," an innovative AI-driven music video that seamlessly combines thousands of covers of Billie Eilish's song "Bad Guy" from YouTube. This groundbreaking project uses YouTube’s ContentID system to identify genuine covers among billions of videos, avoiding false positives and background music, and employs a recurrent neural network to align these diverse covers, regardless of genre, language, or tempo, to the same beat. The interactive experience is built around three YouTube players, balancing functionality and performance while incorporating features inspired by video game interfaces, such as a hashtag drawer, stats page, and autoplay mode, allowing users to explore and enjoy the vast creative interpretations of the song. This experiment not only highlights the immense talent on YouTube but also demonstrates the potential of machine learning in enhancing musical creativity.

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