Die Fans liebten ihr neues Album. Die Sache war, sie hatte keine freigelassen „Es war Musik, die Ai-generiert war, aber sie war geschickt auf mich ausgebildet worden.“

„Last month, award-winning singer Emily Portman got a message from a fan praising her new album and saying „English folk music is in good hands“.

That would normally be a compliment, but the Sheffield-based artist was puzzled.

So she followed a link the fan had posted and was taken to what appeared to be her latest release. „But I didn’t recognise it because I hadn’t released a new album,“ Portman says.

„I clicked through and discovered an album online everywhere – on Spotify and iTunes and all the online platforms.

The 10 tracks had names such as Sprig of Thyme and Silent Hearth – which were „uncannily close“ to titles she might choose. It was something that Portman, who won a BBC Folk Award in 2013, found „really creepy“.

When she clicked to listen, the voice – supposedly hers – was a bit off but sang in „a folk style probably closest to mine that AI could produce“, she says. The instrumentation was also eerily similar.

There’s now a growing trend, though, for established (but not superstar) artists to be targeted by fake albums or songs that suddenly appear on their pages on Spotify and other streaming services. Even dead musicians have had AI-generated „new“ material added to their catalogues.

Portman doesn’t know who put the album up under her name or why.“

can she „claim“ the album so that all money from streaming that album goes to her?