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An AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping A Billboard Chart, And That Should Infuriate Us All
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American pop country is musically extremely basic. Technically it's music, but you'll have no problems teaching someone that's never touched music in their life how to do it within a couple days. So it's no surprise genAI can mimic this genre and other simpler ones like all the kid's music and nursery rhyme stuff too.
American pop music in general is pretty basic, generic, and devoid of ideas. I mean this was the work of SIX song-writers.