Spotify Needs to Stop AI Music From Reaching My Ears: Dave Lee

I don’t mean to be overly rude about country music — I’ve acquired a strong taste for it since living in the US — but it probably surprises few that the genre often derided for its formulaic nature was the first to have an AI “artist” top a Billboard chart.

“Walk My Walk,” by a computer-generated artist called Breaking Rust, holds that dubious honor: It’s currently No. 1 in the “Country Digital Song Sales” ranking. Everybody knows the cliched components of a passable country song, and so apparently does AI. “I keep moving forward, never looking back / ...