Grimes recently made her ‘voice’ publicly available1, effectively allowing anyone to use it to produce music, in exchange for a 50/50 revenue split of royalties on “any successful AI-generated song that uses [it].” Since she announced the offer, she’s retweeted several of these songs; today, she tweeted “I am actually kinda stressed that ppl r starting to make competitively (or maybe better??) quality grimes sounding songs than I do but it's also the most wonderfully poetic way to die and respawn in another career.”

Soon after Grimes made her offer on Twitter, the AI voice company Uberduck tweeted that they would host a competition in which the person who could create the best Grimes AI song — as judged by popular vote of a set of finalists chosen by the company — will win $10,000.

About a week after her announcement, Grimes published more details about her offer. In order to make a song with Grimes’ vocals, the producer must provide her team with an acapella recording of the lyrics, after which the producer will receive a WAV file of the lyrics in Grimes’ voice, which the producer will then own.