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It appears that Will Smith and his team have, embarrasingly, used AI to generate signs and audience members from a recent concert.

Artificial Intelligence

Will Smith’s Tour Video Used AI to Generate Adoring Audience Members and the Result Is… Bleak

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ozzy Osbourne's body is barely cold, but already, he's been subjected to AI resurrection by fellow musician and contemporary Rod Stewart.

Artificial Intelligence

Rod Stewart Revives Selfie Stick-Wielding Ozzy Osbourne In Disgusting AI Slop Video

By Noor Al-Sibai

As Spotify struggles to explain itself to investors, musicians are fleeing the platform due to controversial investments in AI weapons tech.

Artificial Intelligence

Spotify Made a Huge Mistake With AI

Marketing materials for ICP's upcoming album, "The Naught" show telltale signs of AI-generated slop, and some juggalos aren't happy.

Artificial Intelligence

Juggalos Not Happy as Insane Clown Posse Releases AI-Generated Video

An AI-generated piece of clickbait is crowding out the much-hyped release of Tyler, the Creator's "Don't Touch the Glass" on social media.

Tyler, the Creator’s New Album Is Getting Buried by AI Knockoff

During a Chinese music festival, a humanoid robot named "Adam" grooved on the keytar while semi-disguised in a loose-fitting hoodie.

Band Appears on Stage With Poorly-Disguised Robot Playing the Keytar

By Noor Al-Sibai

Spotify is populating the profiles of dead artists with AI-generated songs without the permission of their families or record labels.

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Spotify Caught Doing Something Unbelievably Ghoulish With AI

Music genres once dominated by independent artists are becoming wastelands of unchecked beatspam thanks to the rise of generative AI bots.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Music Is Starting to Crowd Out the Real Stuff on Streaming Platforms

Each can comes secured in a "lab-sealed specimen jar," containing Ozzy's signature, and of course, a sample of his spit.

You Can Now Buy a Sample of Ozzy Osbourne’s DNA in Twelve Easy Payments

The AI company recently confessed to using its own AI chatbot to format its legal briefings, arguing that AI was to blame for the error.

Anthropic Tried to Defend Itself With AI and It Backfired Horribly

Soundcloud, after backlash from musicians, artists, and the music-listening community, changed their policies on AI.

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SoundCloud Backtracks on AI and Changes Policies After Artist Outrage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial Intelligence

SoundCloud Quietly Updated Their Terms to Let AI Feast on Artists’ Music

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers in Japan recently stuck a choir of cicadas full of electrodes to make them sing in a horrifying chorus.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Direct Cyborg Cicadas to Play a Horrendous Droning Rendition of “Pachelbel’s Canon”

Using the DNA of the late musician Alvin Lucier, a team has created an "in-vitro brain" that still creates music with its electrical signals.

Neuroscience and Brain

Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music

By Frank Landymore

In a new music video, Alessandra Basher praised Musk and his businesses while crooning from the bed of a Cybertruck.

This Ultra-Cringe Cybertruck Country Music Video May Cause Your Flesh to Slough Off From Secondhand Embarrassment

By Victor Tangermann

In an effort to send Earth's best to the Moon, the private space company Intuitive Machines succeeded in some ways — and failed in others.

Humankind Has Infected the Moon With Imagine Dragons

By Noor Al-Sibai