Czech figure skating siblings used AI for their song, but it plagiarized the New Radicals and they got in trouble

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There are all sorts of uses for artificial intelligence.

A pair of figure skating siblings from Czechia found that out the hard way when AI decided to plagiarize a real song.

The story, shared by reporter Rodger Sherman, is pretty incredible.

Daniel Mrazek and Katerina Mrazekova are a brother-sister duo that compete together in ice dancing.

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The competitors were told to pick a song "in the style of the 1990s." Rather than pick a real song and get the rights for it approved, the siblings turned to AI.

They asked some artificial intelligence to give them a song that felt like it was from the '90s.

Instead, it took lyrics from an actual song, the New Radicals' You Get What You Give. 

That got them into a bit of trouble.

For the Olympics, they had to change their song. They used AI again. This time, Sherman writes, the song "sucks but isn't directly stolen from anybody."

Well, at least that's something.

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The song they ended up churning out was an AI remix loosely based on AC/DC.

They got a score of 72.09, which didn't put them anywhere near the podium.

In the end, they just annoyed a bunch of people with an odd song choice that didn't accomplish much else.

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