Canadian singer Céline Dion has warned fans of AI-generated music claiming to feature her.
“It has come to our attention that unsanctioned, AI-generated music purporting to contain Celine Dion’s musical performances, and name and likeness, is currently circulating online and across various Digital Service Providers.”
The statement continued: “Please be advised that these recordings are fake and not approved, and are not songs from her official discography.”
Fans, however, didn’t seem very worried.
“Trust me Celine we know the difference between your amazing voice and AI,” one person wrote.
“The AI will never live up to the real artist and is sometimes painful,” another wrote. “We just like to imagine a world where we hear you sing every song we love with that magical voice of yours.”
“We believe that, when used responsibly, AI has enormous potential to advance human creativity,” the letter states. “Unfortunately, some platforms and developers are employing AI to sabotage creativity and artists, songwriters, musicians and rights holders.”
The letter was signed by a wide variety of musicians from Billy Eilish, Q-Tip, and Camila Cabello to Jon Bon Jovi, Elvis Costello, and Engelbert Humperdinck.
The most recent album under her name was the 2024 soundtrack to her documentary “I Am: Celine Dion,” which features some of her biggest hits.
Live performances have been rare for the 56-year-old singer since she was diagnosed in 2022 with stiff-person syndrome—a rare and incurable neurological condition that causes muscle stiffness, as well as severe spasms.
“All I know is singing,” she said emotionally. “It’s what I’ve done all my life, and it’s what I love to do the most.”
The illness forced her to cancel her 2023 and 2024 tour dates plus her Las Vegas residency. However, she did release five original songs for the soundtrack of the romantic comedy “Love Again” in 2023, a feature film in which she plays a fictionalized version of herself.
Dion returned to the spotlight for a one-off performance at the opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. From the balcony of the Eiffel Tower, she gave a rendition of Édith Piaf’s “Hymne à l'amour” (“Hymn to Love”) to a crowd of more than 300,000 people.
In October last year, Dion made a surprise appearance in a “Sunday Night Football” promotional video for the match-up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys, with her 1996 hit ballad “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” playing in the background.