Bad Bunny has furiously addressed a viral AI track created using a replica of his voice in a message to his fans.
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The track, titled ‘Demo #5: Nostalgia’, was created by using FlowGPT and has over 11,000 posts on TikTok and more than 700,000 streams on Spotify. It also features replicated voices from Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber.
As shared by fans on X/Twitter, the Puerto Rican rapper took to his WhatsApp channel to address the song. āThere are people who I understand, and people I donātā¦ There are people who I connect with, and people I donāt,” he began.
| Bad Bunny se mostrĆ³ bastante enojado en su cuenta de WhatsApp despuĆ©s de escuchar la canciĆ³n que es viral en tiktok y que fue producida por un chileno con Inteligencia Artificial. pic.twitter.com/HzZ8zk6aSb
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He continued: āIf you guys like that shitty song that is viral on TikTok, leave this group right now. You guys donāt deserve to be my friends.”
The rapper then went on to say that he created his latest LP, ‘Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar MaƱana’, as a way to weed out any fake fans, adding, “This is exactly why I made the new album, to get rid of people like this.ā
The ‘Ojitos Lindos’ singer ended his rant by saying: “So, chu chu fuera. My Godā¦ I donāt want you at the tour, either.”
Earlier this year, an AI-generated collaboration featuring vocals mimickingĀ DrakeĀ andĀ The Weeknd titled āHeart On My Sleeveā, blew up in a matter of hours and reached 13 million views on TikTok alone when it first surfaced.
On popular DSPs like Apple Music, Spotify, and Tidal, the song also had hundreds of thousand streams ā with over 100,000 views on YouTubeĀ before Universal Music Group banned the song.
The use of AI has been criticised by a number of artists recently including John Lydon,Ā StereophonicsĀ frontmanĀ Kelly JonesĀ andĀ Nick Cave who called ChatGPT and AI songwriting āa grotesque mockery of what it is to be humanā.
Smashing PumpkinsāĀ Billy Corgan, however, Ā saidĀ āAI will change music foreverā since others can āgame the systemā and they’re ānot going to spend 10,000 hours in a basement”.
In other Bad Bunny news, the rapper recently released his latest album ‘Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar MaƱana’. In a four-star review of the LP, NME shared: “Through his sprawling and ambitious album, Bad Bunny spins the trappings of fame into Latin trap gold, and, as his album title promises, he continues to blaze his own trail with big carpe diem energy.”
The rapper also hosted Saturday Night Live on October 22 which features cameo appearances from Lady Gaga and Mick Jagger.
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