An AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping a Billboard Chart
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An AI-generated country song has topped a Billboard chart, sparking concerns about the impact of AI on the music industry and artistic authenticity.
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They will just play the ai-generated track and have fake stand-in musicians pretend to sing and play- like they did with Mili Vanilli and Ashlee Simpson.
The devirtualizer extension for chrome and firefox works pretty well to remove all ai-narrated "virtual voice" audiobooks from Audible:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/devirtualizeaudible...
[1] cf Nora Jones "Don't know why" - though a longer run and better done I feel.