Who’s listening to AI music?
The true horror of how entirely AI-saturated our world has become was revealed to me earlier this month, when I was driving in the car with my mother-in-law. She had a new favorite singer she’s discovered on YouTube. She’d watched footage of this singer playing live concerts in large venues and wanted to know whether I could find her tickets to a gig. But to my confusion, more than 20 minutes of searching online brought up nothing in the way of a live event, though I have seen the videos myself. It took a little while longer before I understood the truth: this popular singer had never actually performed any of her famous “live concerts” and, moreover, she had never actually been alive in any sense because she was a completely AI-generated performer.
