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Max Horder

Who’s listening to AI music?

From our US edition

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.

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Damian Reilly

The woke go broke

From our US edition

It could just be, two years on from the election of President Donald Trump, liberal America is finally arriving at the fifth of the seven stages of grief, the one characterised by guilt. I realised this over the weekend as I watched Bill Maher, self appointed voice of the liberal conscience, delivering some hard to hear home truths to the faithful from the pulpit of his primetime chat show. Citing a recent survey, Maher told his audience: ‘Eighty percent of Americans find political correctness to be a problem, including 75 percent of African Americans, 74 percent of Americans under thirty, 82 percent of Asians, 87 percent of Hispanics and 88 percent of Native Americans.

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