You can’t believe everything you hear.
This week, I saw a lot of articles and viral posts about the AI world song reaching the top of Slide country charts. If a song created with generative AI had really reached
I’m talking about “Hamba Wa Hamba Kwami” by breaking the rust, the name of the artist made by AI “. Meanwhile, as social media users were sharing the news about the country song AI Topping the chart, a person by the name of Morgan Wallen was a real artist over Slide country chart. (I reached Slide Comment, and I’ll update this post if I get a response.)
So, what happened? Technically, “Walk Walk” ranked high a chart. Specifically, Billboard Country Digital is the best selling song. However, as any music listener can tell you, not many people are buying digital copies of songs. At the top of Spotify’s Country Top 50 Chart, the offending rust was nowhere to be found – even after all the headlines this past week.
As is often the case, social media doesn’t really care about this. On YouTube, the song has 38,944 views, as of this writing.
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As someone who grew up in the south and listened a lot of country pop against his will, I can tell you that many ditties sound the same. The pop world loves its roots and they’ve been cloned to death, and “Walk Walk” hits a lot of familiar cliches. The songs include rhymes like “there’s mud on my jeans” and, unfortunately, “I was born this way.” Even the title of the song and the name “Pulesian” have a familiar pain.
Really, it’s hard to think of a more shameless country song title than “Walk Halk,” and what does rust actually mean? That’s exactly the kind of word that sounds familiar in the world but you wouldn’t expect from an artificial intelligence.
At first listen, there isn’t much to distinguish this song from any other country or bluegrass pop hit, at least to my ears. But that’s not so much a praise of the highly productive ai as a criticism of the genre. And of course, if “my walk” sounds like a real country song, it’s because it was done with an AI Audio model trained on real country songs, without the consent or permission of the artists. Many artists consider AI production to be outright theft and plagiarism, on an industrial scale.
In accordance with The TennesseanThe cracking of rust songs is attributed to Aubierre Gwational Molor, an unknown Creator who has no internet presence.
Like it or not, AI creators aren’t going away. I’ve written about the mysterious AI “players” before, and you can pretty much expect AI-produced songs, movies, books, and slop to appear in your possession from now on, and maybe forever.
This document reflects the author’s opinion.
Disclosure: Ziff Davis, mashable’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAi, alleging that Ziff Davis CopyRights to the training and operation of its AI programs.
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